BreakFree With ValArcher

Break Free of Pain & Addiction
In 8 Easy Steps
by Val Archer - @valarcher
http://www.GreenSmoothie.com
(c) copyright 2011, Valerie K. Archer, all rights reserved

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I'm trusting you to do your homework.
do the homework for that week :)
Study ONE CLASS A WEEK and
* Class 1--Breaking Free of Addiction. You WILL be free one day.

These classes are your guiding light.
* Class 2--Overcoming Pain. LIVING foods are the key to healing growing in the moment you eat them.
* Class 3--Your Metabolic Type. Nature-Nurture - you know it's

genes and environment that shape you into a unique person. Today
let's look at genes.
* Class 4--Protein - Your ENERGY Food. Time to calculate your
Protein needs - Ball Park Needs, Scientific Needs, Sources,
Recipes, etc.
* Class 5--Fat - Your BRAIN Food. Time to calculate your Fat
needs - Ball Park Needs, Scientific Needs, Sources, Recipes, etc.
* Class 6--Carbohydrates - Your FILLER Food. First thing you
notice when you start to go raw, you're starving hungry. Why?
Because you don't eat enough calories! Ball Park Needs,
Scientific Needs, Sources, Recipes, etc.
* Class 7--Nurturing You. You learned about nature (genes) in
Class 3. Today let's deal with nurture, your environment.
* Class 8--Which Healing School? What do the gurus say you SHOULD
do? And which do you resonate with? The top five schools in
nutritional healing from raw to cooked, vegan to meat, they're
all here!
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Class 1--Breaking Free of Addiction

Hi -- here's class 1 of your 8-week health class on How to Eat
for YOUR unique needs...
We begin with my story... and your drug of choice, SFS...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It's the fall of 1992. I'm 44 years old, peri-menopausal.
I walk out of my Russian dentist's office on Ocean Avenue in
Brooklyn, New York and grumble:
"OK, Ann Wigmore, if your way cures cancer, let's see it cure
a hole in my tooth."
My dentist has just diagnosed a $1,200 root canal. I don't have
$12. Health insurance? Never seen it in my life.
In four years (from 1988) I lose five teeth to root canal or
extraction. Now she's out for more blood.
Not blaming her. Doctor mentions (once) "this wouldn't be
happening if you'd change your diet." But she never tells me WHAT
to eat!
How many dentists and doctors know how to live on fresh raw
fruits and vegetables? The way of the late Dr. Ann Wigmore.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Knowledge Sets You Free *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - How did I hit my early 40's with such huge mineral deficiencies
that I'm losing a tooth every year?
I drank. And I smoked. Pretty much daily, and often
round-the-clock from 1966 (first year at college) to 1988 (landed
in AA).
Then I ate sugar for my daily meals -- Mrs Fields Cookies, Dunkin
Donuts, and McDonald's strawberry milkshakes -- until that day at
my dentist, 1992.
Will I tell you addiction stories that will make your eyebrows
crawl? Not now, I'm not ready to go naked.
Picture this. You scrape down to the bottom of the barrel of
addiction, then you dig a hole in the bottom, and crawl into a
bottomless pit of Addiction. I call it "black-out."
I want you to know I've been there. I know hell on earth. If
you're insane (as I was) - you go into black-out over and over
again and expect a different result - it's okay.
You WILL be free one day. These classes are your guiding light.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Are You Sane? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you're sane, and believe you're no addict, that's good news
too. My class will teach you how to soar to new heights.
Are you apparently sane like my ex-boss Neil in Manhattan? He
enjoys a simple breakfast of granola. Lunch is turkey on rye with
lettuce. Dinner is meat + veg with his family, or a meal out with
friends. Do you call this addiction?
I do. It's the SFS drug. Our parents are junkies. They get us
hooked before we can walk. By 3 years old a little child is
clamoring for her fix - candy! Candy!
SFS is the most widespread drug in the capitalized world. It
causes more sickness, pain and early needless deaths than
alcohol, cigarettes, heroin and all drugs combined, more pain and
death than all wars. It costs a fortune in medical bills!
It causes irreversible losses in productivity - a sheer waste of
human life. When you break free of SFS, you reach your fullest
potential and joy. Your pain evaporates into the mists of times
past.
Are you in pain? Is it self-inflicted?

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * What is that drug, SFS? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SFS = SUGAR, FAT, SALT.
99% of us are SO addicted to SFS that you believe you will
actually *suffer* if you give it up!
You look at someone like me who eats fruit and veg and you
grimace: "Eugh! I'd be miserable if I ate like that!"
In fact, you do suffer! SFS releases the feel-good chemical
dopamine in your brain. So does cocaine. The withdrawal symptoms
last from three months to as long as you want. I took 15 years to
break free of SFS.
* SUGAR is white sugar and white grains - that's bread, pasta,
breakfast cereal, white rice, all the things you never see in
nature.
* FAT is fish, animal, bird, dairy, and vegetable oils. It's ok
to eat a little meat or fish if you feel a need for that protein.
But fat for breakfast, fat for lunch, and fat for dinner? That's
SFS drug. Your body's not made for so much fat.
* FAT is also the white grains. They're hopelessly unbalanced too much sugar (glucose molecules) with too few nutrients. When
this glucose enters your fat cells, it gets turned into glycerol
and fatty acids.
* SALT includes sea salt. Many healing schools, such as the late
Drs Herbert Shelton (natural hygiene) and Max Gerson, say it
means ALL salt, including Himalayan crystal salt and Celtic sea
salt.
Do you see nature fairies flitting from plant to plant sprinkling
salt on their leaves and fruits?
Why are you doing it, if it's not in nature? Salt is in all SFS
food, the cans, the jars, the boxes.
Nature lives in exquisite balance. Illness is imbalance. As you
grow more unbalanced, you topple over and die. Your goal is
BALANCE.
So look at nature. Follow Her. Be willing to admit, "I'm a
junkie, an SFS addict."
Then decide to get clean and sober. As an alcoholic I set my
sights on reaching one year without alcohol. I visualized all the
drinks - brandy, rum, tequila, beer, wine, coffee creme liqueur -
I would line up in a row and drink on the 365th day.

Hopefully you're not that dumb. You visualize FOOD that tastes so
good, it's orgasmic - fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds,
grains, beans :)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * What Is Addiction? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Addiction is UNconscious action. Knowledge is Conscious action.
Knowledge sets you free.
What's the first step I took when I walked away from my dentist
that fall day in 1992?
What did I do when I got home?
How come today, 20 years on, I can go four years without seeing a
dentist or oral hygienist (please do NOT follow that bad example)
and
* I NEVER HAVE A SINGLE CAVITY!
How did I walk away from losing a tooth a year?
Stay tuned for Class 2, coming in seven days :)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: I want you to begin with one Green Smoothie a day
* For a MINIMUM of THREE days in the next seven days.
Pick up the Green Smoothie recipes here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/green.php
Are you gung-ho on macrobiotics, or believe you must not eat
fruit?
Then leave out the Green Smoothie, and begin with Energy Soup,
the recipes are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/energy.php
Be sure to click through to page 2 for Energy Soup variations.
If you don't know how to sprout, then omit the bean sprouts for
now. You'll learn sprouting in class 4 on Protein.
Chief difference between Green Smoothie and Energy Soup is:

* In Green Smoothie, you sweeten the taste of the greens with
fruit, and get your calories from fruit;
* In Energy Soup, you "savorize" the taste of the greens with
fat (avocado, a fatty fruit). This fat gives you the calories you
need for energy.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: Understand how the Chlorophyll in leafy greens will
clean and rebuild your cells quicker than any other chemical,
read:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/chlorophyll.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Now You're On The Way *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Remember the TWO cardinal rules:
(1) Did you blend that leafy green yesterday? Say spinach? Then
blend a DIFFERENT green today, like lettuce.
(2) Same with fruit. Don't eat what you ate yesterday. Eat NEW
fruits today.
Your gazillion metabolic pathways need a gazillion-lillion
different nutrients, perhaps more than the stars in heaven?
That's why VARIETY is critical.
You're on your way to BALANCING your biochemistry. It's not the
devil who shackles you and forces you into Addiction. Or holds
you back from your full potential.
I know it feels like that. I had no control. Some demonic force
controlled me.
That evil force is UNBALANCED BIOCHEMISTRY. It's biological, not
psychological.
Each week for the next eight weeks you'll take one step to
balance your biochemistry.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * You Can NOT Fall Off The Wagon *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You are creating new habits. Don't beat yourself up if you sink
into black-out today. You can still create one new habit.
You're on the wagon! Readers write me that they fell off the
wagon. Nonsense! You caught the wagon train :) You weren't left
behind...
Blend your greens, even when you feel sick from eating junk.
Force it down you. Green Smoothies and Energy Soup will balance
you.
In 1993, greasy foods were my favorite, like falafel from my
local Hasidic take-away in Brooklyn. Deep-fried in fat, I stuffed
as many as possible into my pita. One day after scoffing down a
ton of Indian curry (swimming in oil) I forced my Energy Soup
into me. I felt so sick, nearly vomited. But the Greens worked
their magic.
Today I have zero desire for grease or fries (or the bakery). My
favorite food is fresh fruit in season. Yet in the early 1990's
I could not eat fruit. It hurt my teeth, those juices seeping
into all my cavities.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Be A Wimbledon Star
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You are unique. Your genes, your lifestyle, your history. Your
nature-nurture is unique. There is no one else on earth like you.
This means no one on earth can tell you what to eat FOR YOU. You
will balance yourself. You have the power.
Like a Wimbledon star, you will learn all the basics in these
classes. Try out each move, and discover YOUR moves where you win
the game every time you play.
BEGIN TODAY. Go shopping for leafy greens, fruit and avocado,
organic if possible.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Any questions or extra tips you'd like to add to today's class?
I'll do my best to answer on my Facebook fan page here:
==> http://www.facebook.com/valarcherwriter
Click the "Like" button and a window opens up for you to post.
warm hugs -- (womon)Val - DM @valarcher
P.S. "Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning
brings" - Grateful Dead in "Eyes Of The World"
(c) copyright 2011, Valerie K. Archer
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Class 2--Overcoming Pain

Your first step, moving past pain...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "OK, Ann Wigmore, if your way cures cancer, let's see it cure
a hole in my tooth."
My self-talk as I walk away from my dentist that fall day in
Brooklyn, 1992.
Unbearable toothache, a swelling in my gum as big as a marble,
and not a penny for the dentist, where do I begin?
I pick up Ann Wigmore's "The Sprouting Book."
I knew of Dr Ann for 20 years. In 1972 London, my hippy days,
when I'm tripping on LSD, I pick up a jar of soya bean sprouts
growing in my bedroom. They are SO ALIVE with ENERGY, phew!
Indeed, so vibrant with life that in that moment I can't eat
those soya sprouts!
* LIVING foods are the key to healing
* Growing in the moment you eat them
Flip to my New York dentist, 1992. Within 24 hours I have organic
seeds, soil, and growing trays delivered to my front door on
credit. Go New York!
Today I use a GoGreen Automatic Sprouter for my fresh greens
daily. Back then soil was the only option. See Sprouter info
here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/sprout/gogreen.php
Pain is the great motivator. If you are in pain, you're the
luckiest person on earth. That's when you begin to act
Consciously.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * My First Green Smoothie *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Growing my own greens worked for that toothache. Slowly over a
year it dissolved away (or calcified up). But I stayed addicted
to sugar.
I had a 3-day temp job on Broadway where I'd eat greens and whole
foods only from Tuesday to Thursday at my job, then do the Herald

Square Crawl for my 4-day weekend.
You begin in Macy's basement at their chocolate bar, and David's
cookies. Then cross the road to Woolworths for giant slabs of
Cadbury's.
Turn the corner for Mrs Field's white chocolate + macadamia nut
cookies. Cross the road to A&S building for Au Bon Pain's gooeys.
Then take the subway home to Brooklyn to gorge.
Well that was the Herald Square Crawl back in 1992.
A year later, in the fall of 1993, the baby greens and sprouts
are piling up in my refrigerator. I'm binging on sugar for so
many days, not touching those bitter greens.
When you grow greens at home, there's a fresh tray every day.
It's how the growing cycle works. When you don't eat it, they
pile up quickly.
Then I remember a recipe I saw in Ann Wigmore's booklet "Rebuild
Your Health." The Energy Soup recipe - blend your greens. Today
it's morphed into Green Smoothie.
Well my refrigerator is so full of the stuff, I figure: "let's
blend it!"
Within a week, blending those greens every day, I see LIGHT at
the end of my dark tunnel for the first time in my entire life!
I'm standing in my bathroom. I KNOW it. An awakening fills me,
like the rising of a new dawn. Sugar is no longer my Master. I've
found the escape route.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Power of Blended Greens *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There is one weakness in Sugar's armor. It can't stand up to
Green Smoothies. Green Smoothie wins. Your addiction to SFS dies.
Indeed, every addiction falls away, like leaves from a tree in
autumn. One-by-one they gently drift to the ground and die. They
meet their match in Energy Soup and Green Smoothie.
How fast will they fall? You're in charge. As someone hell-bent
on killing myself, I had no will-power. It took 15 years, to
2007, for me to reach 95% raw.
What happened to the two giant slabs of Cadbury's I ate at the
start of every day? I don't know, they vaporized somewhere along
the line...
I never gave up anything. I just added good things in. Some

people are the opposite. It's easy for them to give up the bad.
But then you must ADD IN the good.
I discovered over the years to Reach for Raw FIRST when I'm
hungry. Instead of eating yogurt, I eat an entire papaya.
Fresh raw fruits and vegetables are the only food on earth that
are perfectly balanced. They will balance your biochemistry.
Everyone - even the meat gurus like Dr Joseph Mercola - agree
that fresh organic fruit, vegetables and leafy greens need to be
at the HEART of every meal you eat.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Raw, Fresh, and Alive *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Today my diet is 95-100% fresh raw foods in summer, 80-90% in
winter. The rest is whole plant foods, like cooked butternut in
winter.
It's such a freedom to eat whatever you like as much as you like,
and what you like is nourishing and gives you energy and peace.
It's raw, it's fresh, it's alive, and it's a plant that looks
exactly as it does in nature.
As for the junk, today I can happily eat a slice of chocolate
cake at a party, or drink a glass of wine, and experience no
binge reaction. The addictions are gone.
Junk is for socializing. It's not for living. In truth, it should
not even be in our social world. It's so sad that we celebrate
life with dead food.
As we spread the word of LIFE, we'll gradually see an end to our
silly practice of eating death.
You go first, then others will follow.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Craving Sweet after Eating Greens? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It's okay if you do what I did, wash down your Green Smoothie
with a bag full of bakery goodies.
I don't care what bad you're doing. JUST DO ONE THING RIGHT ONCE
A DAY. The bad will fall away, trust me.
But only if you do your homework...
Read WHY you may crave apple pie afterwards, it's because leafy
greens are so high in protein:

==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/energy02.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Continue with one Green Smoothie or Energy Soup a day
for a MINIMUM of FIVE days in the next seven days.
So you up it from 3 days a week to 5 days. Recipes are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/green.php
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/energy.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: Begin to get a feel for what WHOLE foods are (cooked or
raw) and how to eat them. Read:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/wigmore.php
Especially scroll down past the chart to read about oils, the F
in your SFS drug.
Oils are 100% fat. Avoid them like the plague. They're high in
calories with virtually zero nutrients.
Yes - when you set out on this path to High Health - a
cold-pressed virgin olive oil is delicious on salad. But it will
go.
Every raw fooder I know (including me) found that we needed a lot
of fat at the start, then slowly it dropped away.
At first I kept 2-3 nut butters in my refrigerator all year
round, like tahini, almond butter and macadamia butter. Today I
make one at a time in the winter. I never want nut butter in the
summer.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next week's class is on your genes. How do YOU convert food into
energy and heat?
Any questions or extra tips you'd like to add to today's class?
P.S. "Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose." - Bette Midler, The Rose
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Class 3--Your Metabolic Type

Nature-Nurture - you know it's genes and environment, they shape
you into a unique person. Today let's look at genes...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The first step is to discover what RATIO of fats, proteins, and
carbohydrates gives YOU the best energy. It's all about ENERGY.
Do you need a lot more protein than I do? Do I need more
carbohydrate than you?
We call this Metabolic Typing. How do YOU convert your food into
energy and heat?
* PROTEIN TYPE - if your genes are mostly inherited from the
cold northern hemisphere, then it's likely you produce more heat
when burning calories. You're a Protein type, a fast oxidizer.
You need more protein and fat.
When a Protein type tries to eat low fat raw vegan in the
northern winter, they feel chilled all the time. Raw vegan is a
high-carb diet, the opposite of what they need.
* CARB TYPE - if your genes are mostly from the tropics or warm
southern hemisphere, then you burn calories efficiently and
release less heat as waste. You're a Carb type, a slow oxidizer.
You thrive on a low fat raw vegan diet.
* MIXED TYPE - you're in the middle!
USA population is divided equally between the 3 types - one-third
Protein, one-third Carb, and one-third Mixed.
To understand the science behind metabolic typing, read this
page:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/water/food-2.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Discover Your Metabolic Type *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First get a feel for the differences between Carb and Protein
types, read this page:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/water/food.php
Then get a feel for which foods are protein, which are fat, and
which are carbohydrate, see this page:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/wigmore.php
Finally, print out this Analysis Sheet from Dr Joseph Mercola:
==> http://www.mercola.com/forms/mtt_table.htm
Two hours after eating a meal, you check the questions on his
Sheet. Each day you adjust your ratio of fat, carb, and protein,
until the day when most of your check marks are in the left
column.
This way you'll know whether you need more protein + fat, or more
carbs.
Don't sweat it :) In time a healthy person naturally gravitates
toward the right ratio. As you evolve into High Health, you'll
reach for what your body needs.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Theory of Metabolic Typing *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Different metabolic types react differently to the same
nutrients and the same foods. What's medicine for a Protein type
can be poison for a Carb type.
* If you eat wrong for your metabolic type, you create
biochemical imbalance.
* Illness can arise from virtually opposite biochemical
imbalances.
For instance, a Protein type may thrive on meat, while a Carb
type will suffer from excess cholesterol. A Carb type feels
super-energized on fruit, while a Protein type will see their
triglycerides soar (unhealthy insulin response).
Metabolic typing is not remotely connected to blood type ("Eat
Right 4 Your Type"). Blood has nothing to do with burning food
for energy.
Blood type is another example of how biochemically unique we are.
In fact there's tons of metabolic markers that measure your

individuality. Surely even blue eyes need different nutrients
from brown?
Are you in love with someone who's in love with someone else?
Have you ever been? Then you know how biochemically alone you
are!
It applies to food as much as to love.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Vegan or Flesh Protein? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Problems arise when we lay trips on others. Many of us choose
vegetarian or vegan for humane, spiritual, and ecological
reasons.
But diet is not a step-ladder to heaven. You're not on a higher
step to bliss if you eat vegan, nor are you higher in the
hierarchy if you eat meat.
I've heard an ex-raw vegan argue that meat-eaters are top of the
ladder. I've heard vegans argue that their path is best. I'm
guilty of this on my own website.
The truth is there's no step-ladder. All around us we see one web
of life. A web so delicately spun that polar bears have chemicals
from cosmetics used by humans in California.
What we eat is a delicate strand in the web. If you feel you need
flesh protein for your health, trust your body.
Susan Schenck is the woman who overthrew my childish
"I-know-it-all" thinking. In 2006 Susan wrote the raw vegan bible
"The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate
Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet."
Everyone I lend this book to is 100% convinced that raw vegan is
the healthiest possible diet you could ever eat!
Then, after six years as a raw vegan, Susan found herself
irritable, with cravings, losing muscle mass, and losing her
memory! The moment she brought animal protein and animal fats
back into her diet, she felt great.
So in 2011 Susan wrote her next book "Beyond Broccoli, Creating a
Biologically Balanced Diet When a Vegetarian Diet Doesn't Work."
In the amazon.com description, you'll read: "not everyone can
efficiently convert plant nutrients to critical nutrients needed
by the body, such as omega-3s into DHA and EPA needed by the
brain; beta-carotene into true vitamin A; vitamin D2 into D3, and
vitamin K1 into K2. Not everyone has the metabolic type to go
vegetarian."
I went vegetarian over the course of a year in 1971-2 as a hippie
in London. Since July 1972 I've not eaten fish, animal, bird or
eggs. But that does not mean it's right for you!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Discovering Your Metabolic Type If You're An Addict *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Listen to your body. That's the only rule. Problem is, how can
you listen when you're an addict?
When I set out on the rawfood path, there was no body for me to
listen to! Sugar was my master. SFS controlled my body-mind.
How can you know if you're a Protein type when you eat sugar
round the clock? Or drink it? Despair... that's all you know.
Naked despair, where there's no hope, not one flicker of hope.
How long did it take before I could say No to Sugar? I guess
about a year.
I made Energy Soup and green juices, one or the other every day
for a year. Slowly my biochemistry grew balanced enough so I
could strongly declare: "No Sugar Today!" At first, just for one
day, then later for three days, then ten.
Today I hear my body. It's an instant feeling. I reach for what I
need. And I no longer whip myself when I eat something I don't
need.
Cookies don't even look edible! At a tea party, everyone's eating
cookies and cake. I just drink a cup of tea.
I love my place in the web of life!
Don't worry if you don't know what metabolic type you are! One
day it all falls into place.
Keep on following the steps I give in these classes. Balance
comes when you take one step at a time.
Like love, it comes in its own time, in unexpected ways.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Add green juice to your diet. Try to make a quart of
green juice on at least two days a week, say mid-week and
weekend.
Recipes are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/vegejuice.php
Include wheatgrass juice at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/wheatgrass.php
No juicer? No problem. Use your blender for now. Grow wheatgrass
in trays of soil or in the GoGreen Automatic Sprouter, then blend
it with watery greens like cucumber, celery and lettuce. Squeeze
the juice out, and throw the pulp onto your garden.
The goal is green JUICE, not green blend (smoothie) or green
pulp.
Continue with a Green Smoothie or Energy Soup on the days you
don't juice. It's fine to take a break a couple of days.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: I've given you enough to read for this week!
Begin with the Metabolic Typing links at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/water/food.php
Click through to next page, to see what food to eat for your type
at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/water/food-2.php
and print out Dr Mercola's analysis sheet at:
==> http://www.mercola.com/forms/mtt_table.htm
Then if you're hungry for more info, Search "nutritional types"
at Dr Mercola's site (it's the same thing as metabolic types).
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next week's class is on Protein - how much do you need for your
body weight? Where to get it? And how to easily digest it.
P.S. "The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness,
beauty and truth." - Albert Einstein

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Class 4--Protein--Your Energy Food

Time to calculate your Protein needs...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Protein is your ENERGY FOOD. You need it to build body tissue,
enzymes, hormones and antibodies.
You know you're not getting enough protein if you feel tired and
weak all the time. You've got no oomph! Also hair loss and poor
wound healing are signs of protein deficiency.
For my first 20 years as a vegetarian, when I drank and smoked
heavily, my body was starved of protein. I was exhausted. I lit
up in a big smile inside when I ate a soya hamburger, it felt so
good. My body loved that protein, even though soya burgers don't
remotely resemble anything in nature!
Super high energy came pouring into my life when I began to grow
sprouts and baby greens.
If I add a full tray of fresh sunflower greens from my GoGreen
Sprouter into my green smoothie at night, I can't sleep. It's too
high in protein energy. Half a tray is my limit. Then I make up
the bulk with a dead head of lettuce from the store.
I eat more protein in the winter. That's when my grains and
legumes come out of my freezer and into my sprout jars (at the
start of my healing, I used to cook them).
Come summer, I'm happy with lots of fruit, and tons of leafy
greens in Green Smoothies.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Ball Park Needs *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule-of-thumb is, if you're eating enough CALORIES a day from a
VARIETY of fresh plant foods, you're getting enough protein.
If you're not eating enough calories, then you'll suffer nutrient
deficiencies all round, not just protein deficiency :)
You know you're not eating enough calories if you're losing
weight you don't want to lose.
Registered dieticians Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina sum it up

in "Becoming Raw - The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets." To
get your recommended daily allowance (RDA) of protein, they say
it's best to eat:
"A mixed diet that includes raw vegetables, fruit, nuts, and
seeds, with optional grains and legumes, in order to ensure an
assortment of the indispensable amino acids."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Scientific Needs *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You are unique. Today you may need more protein, but try to get
the RDA.
For adults, the daily protein RDA is 0.8 grams per kilogram of
body weight. For 54 kg, you need 43 grams of protein (54 x 0.8).
In non-metric US, you calculate it like this:
Body weight (in pounds) x 0.36 x 0.035 = recommended protein
intake (in ounces)
So if you're 120 lbs (54 kg) you need 1.5 ounces (43g) of
protein, and at 165 lbs (75 kg) you need 2 ounces (57g).
You can also calculate your protein needs as a percent of
calories - 6% to 10% of your calories should be protein. As we
age and eat fewer calories, that percent increases.
4 calories = 1 gram of protein, so if you're a woman eating 2,000
calories x 8% / 4 = 40 grams protein, similar to the 43g above
for a 120 lb woman.
You may've heard that human breast milk is only 6% protein per
calories. So why get 10%? Because human milk is unique so we
can't compare - it's highly digestible and has a good balance of
all the essential amino acids.
Dr Neal Barnard (the medical doctor who inspired TV Ellen to go
vegan) writes in "The Power of Your Plate":
"High-protein diets contribute to kidney disease and
osteoporosis. ...there is no need to get out your food scale and
nutrition tables. A normally varied diet of foods from plants
will provide plenty of protein. If you include meat, poultry or
fish on a regular basis, you are almost certainly getting too
much."
He also mentions in the same book:
"Chicken and fish are not health foods. They are overly high
in protein and chemical and bacterial contaminants."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Plants *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Plants happily meet all my protein needs. I have strength,
endurance and high energy. After an hour of swimming laps, I stop
only because I'm bored.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ("PCRM")
advises that a plant diet is the healthiest choice, at:
==> http://pcrm.org/health/powerplate/
Here's GRAMS of protein PER CUP of plant food:
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Supplements: spirulina 68 grams, dried shiitake mushrooms 38

Legumes: lentils 54, mung beans 44
Seeds: flax 40, pumpkin 34, sunflower 33, sesame + chia 25
Nuts: black walnuts 30, almonds 29, pistachio 26
Grains: wheat 30, amarinth 28, oat groats 25, kamut 24
Avocado - only 5 grams!
Roughly, it's 40 grams protein per cup of legumes, 30g for seeds,
and 25-30g for nuts and grains. (5 grams = 0.18 ounces, so 40g =
1.5oz, 25-30g = 1oz, roughly)
It's easy to eat a cup of cooked grains or beans, while we don't
normally eat more than half-cup of seeds or nuts, so protein *per
serving* looks more like:
Legumes 40g and grains 30g per cup, nuts and seeds 15g (1/2 oz)
per half-cup.
You see how easy it is to get protein from plants? Even if you
weigh 250 lbs, you need only 3 ounces! A cup of beans, a cup of
grains, and a half-cup of nuts or seeds will do it.
Vegetables, fruits and leafy greens are under 5 grams a cup.
However raw fruit + veg is a perfect RATIO of carbohydrates to
fats to protein.
If you take any 5 fruits + vegetables out of a barrel full,
you're likely eating 80% of your calories as carbohydrate, 10% as
fat and 10% as protein -- the ratio recommended by many
nutritional researchers and clinicians.
That's why I thrive on fresh fruits, vegetables and leafy greens
in the summer, with about an ounce of nuts or seeds a day.
The error rawfood newbies make, is that you don't eat enough
BULK. Yes, it's the right ratio, but you need to eat a LOT of
fruit + veg.
The size of your salad must shock anyone who comes into the room
while you're eating. That big bowl full you used to make for the
whole family? That's enough for one.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Leafy Greens *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You don't get much protein when you chew on a few green leaves.
But when you JUICE and BLEND leafy greens, that packs a power
punch!
You need a pound (half a kilo) a day of leafy greens for an
average 2,000-calorie diet.
In "Becoming Raw" Davis & Melina write:
"Make the calcium-rich, low-oxalate greens (such as broccoli,
bok choy, dandelion greens, kale, mustard greens, napa cabbage,
turnip greens, and watercress) the backbone of every day's
menus."
"It is wise to include greens at least twice a day in your
meals or snacks, using a total of about 1-1/3 pounds (600 grams)
of greens on most days."
[my note: and enjoy the lighter-tasting greens such as the
wide variety of lettuces]
I've enjoyed blended leafy greens - as Energy Soup or Green
Smoothie - 4-5 days a week since the early 1990's. I don't eat
flesh protein.
Today my nails are so strong that they cut a hole through my
socks! Which is a good sign that everything else in me is
super-strong.
Wikipedia reports at:
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_%28anatomy%29
"Nail growth record can show the history of recent health and
physiological imbalances, and has been used as a diagnostic tool
since ancient times."
I don't take any special nail nutrients such as horsetail and
nettle tea. My nails simply grew stronger and stronger the more
raw foods I ate, and by blending tons of greens.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Seeds + Nuts *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you're not blending or juicing leafy greens every day, then
most nutritionists agree you need 2-4 ounces of nuts and seeds
daily for more protein (about 1/2 cup).

Dr Doug Graham at foodnsport.com disagrees, he says this is too
much fat.
As usual, follow your own body. As you cleanse and rebuild, you
get a feel for what you need each day.
More about nuts + seeds in next week's class on Fats.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Legumes (beans, peas + lentils) *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I needed to eat a LOT of beans when I first began my transition
to whole foods.
I cooked beans, sprouted them, and my filler food for hunger was
soya hotdogs on Essene bread from my health store.
Raw foods are like taking your car in for service. As your cell
membranes get cleaner, and your entire metabolism operates more
efficiently, the beans may drop away.
Today I can't eat those soya hamburgers and hotdogs. They're like
plastic in my stomach. But in the early 1990's they helped to
keep me away from the bakery. If you're eating meat, then they're
a good temporary substitute.
Also included here are soya milk, tempeh and tofu. I loved to
make tofu chocolate mousse, and buy the flavored tofus. Today
it's too processed for me.
RAW SPROUTED BEANS - mung and lentil are delicious raw. Sprout
them in a jar for a few days. Instructions are here (this is for
wheat, but you sprout beans the same way):
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/dhd/recipes.php#grind-wheat
STEAMED SPROUTED BEANS - starchier legumes like chick peas (also
called garbanzo) and soya beans are tough to digest as raw
sprouts. Steam the sprouts for 3 to 5 minutes, they're a delight!
Their starch converts into sugars, same as steaming carrots a
little. Frozen green lima beans you can steam too. They're not
raw, they're blanched before freezing, but they're a quick filler
food.
COOKED LEGUMES - I found them such a hassle to cook, they'd
always boil over! Paul Pitchford in "Healing With Whole Foods"
advises that to cook beans quicker and digest them more easily:
* Soak legumes overnight, or while at work - 4 cups water to 1
cup legume - you release the gas-causing enzymes into the soak
water.
* Cook in fresh water with kombu or kelp seaweed - 1 cup seaweed

to 6 cups legumes. I loved this tip, I always added a big chunk
of kombu when I cooked my beans.
* After bringing legumes to a boil, scoop off and discard the
foam.
* Cook legumes with fennel or cumin to help prevent gas.
* Don't give legumes to children under 18 months. They don't
have the gastric enzymes to digest them properly.
The quick way to cook beans is to make a dahl. Simmer whole
unsprouted mung beans, or green split peas, with a Tbsp of currie
powder until they're soft.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Grains *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Grains are low in the essential amino acid lysine, but high in
methionine. Beans are the opposite - high in lysine, low in
methionine.
So when you mix beans and grains, you get a good balance of
protein. It's a nice warm meal in the early days of cutting out
meat, with some steamed winter greens added.
I'd add a sauce from the health store (with no SFS) such as Thai,
Chinese, Mexican. Or sprinkle pizza herbs on top. You can see I'm
not a cook!
The pseudo-grains (look like grains but botanically are not) amarinth, buckwheat and quinoa - have nearly double the lysine of
other grains, and don't have any gluten.
Sprouted buckwheat is delicious, here's a recipe for buckwheat
crunch:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/dhd/food.php#gr-crunch
With quinoa most of us (including me!) don't like it sprouted.
Quinoa tastes good only when cooked. It's a quick protein fix -one cup quinoa to 3 cups water, simmer softly for 10-15 minutes.
For a low-fat yogurt, try this oat yogurt recipe at:
==> http://vegpeace.org/oatyogurt.html
Oats are the perfect bone-builder with their high silica content.
Great for women over 40!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Digesting Your Protein *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sprouting, soaking, and fermenting a plant food makes the protein
more digestible. They destroy the enzyme inhibitors in plants.
These inhibitors can inactivate the enzymes we use to digest
protein. They're especially high in legumes.
Some say cooking makes protein more digestible. But it also
coagulates the protein. You can see it when you fry an egg. The
protein chains unravel and cross-link with each other.
Flesh protein is tough to digest. It's like braided hair. The
amino acid chains (looking like strings of pearls) are wound
round and round each other. Very hard for your enzymes to snip
off each individual pearl.
Here's help to cut out meat one day a week:
==> http://www.meatlessmonday.com/
It's not what you swallow. It's what gets digested and absorbed
into your cells! When a food is ALIVE and full of energy - like
bean sprouts - it's easy for your cells to absorb its energy. But
how often do you dig your teeth into a living cow?
Go for Green Smoothies :) and sprouted or soaked seeds as your
protein back-up.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Consciousness is Compassion *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It's easy to pick a fruit with love. How many of us can kill an
animal with love? Can you slaughter your dog or cat for your
evening meal today? When fresh vegetables, nuts, and fruits are
all around you?
Commercial fishing strips the ocean bare. It starves the whales
and dolphins of their food, and suffocates them slowly to death
in its nets. It's a wasteland. So desperate are the oceans for
intensive care (and our compassion) they're listed as "The Next
Dust Bowl."
Rainforests with magical wildlife are razed to the ground to make
room for cattle. Have you seen a wild animal being burnt alive?
Innocent people suffer from hunger. What happened to the fruit
fields where they worked? Turned over to highly-mechanized soya,
to feed the cattle.
Can you look after grass-fed elk and bison on the rooftops of New
York? Or in the slums of Nairobi? That's what the meat gurus say
we must eat.
People ARE growing fruit and vegetables on rooftops, and in
slums. Google this: "animals + birds killed daily for food in
USA."
We can change direction. The steering wheel is our spending
dollar.
Slowly we humans are realizing it's wrong to trap, enslave and
torture to death the thinking feeling beings who share planet
Earth with us. Just as in the 1800's we realized human slavery is
wrong.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Play with protein. Calculate your protein RDA for your
weight:
* Body weight (in pounds) x 0.36 x 0.035 = recommended protein
intake (in ounces)
* Or, Body weight (in kg) x 0.8 = recommended protein intake (in
grams)
Get a feel for whether you're eating enough protein, or too much
- allow 40g (1.5oz) protein per cup of legumes, 30g (1oz) per cup
of grains, and 15g (1/2oz) for a half-cup of nuts or seeds.
You can enter what you eat at sites like nutridiary.com and
fitday.com. They'll show you what percent of calories you're
eating as protein. You want to aim for 10% to 20%.
Protein Recipes are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/recipes.php#prot
Protein is your ENERGY food, especially LIVING protein such as
alfalfa and clover sprouts (these are both legumes) and baby
sunflower greens (sunflower seeds grown to leafy greens).
It's quick + easy to grow sprouts and baby greens in the GoGreen
Automatic Sprouter at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/sprout/gogreen.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: Understand your need for protein and the risk of getting
too much protein.
Read at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:
==> http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/protein.html
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next class you'll calculate your Fat needs. Fat is the most hotly
debated issue in the food world, and raw foods are no exception!
P.S. "Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of
eating, very few survive." - George Bernard Shaw
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Class 5--Fat--Your Brain Food

Time to calculate your Fat needs...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fat is your BRAIN FOOD. Your nerves lap it up :)
If you're on a short fuse, drink more seed milks! If you have dry
skin or hair, or brittle nails, you need more fat.
It's critical you read this page for in-depth info on Fat:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/fat.php
In my experience, nerve stress demands the most fat. So when I
worked in New York City, I drank a seed or nut milk every
evening. Whereas now, working at home in a quiet suburb, I never
drink seed milks.
I'm lucky if I remember to eat 2 or 3 tablespoons of seeds a
week!
In the months when I give up cheese, I find myself eating a lot
more seeds. Which is good of course...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Ball Park Needs *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Try to eat AT LEAST an ounce (28g) of fatty seeds a day, that's:
* One rounded Tbsp (tablespoon) of seeds like sesame or shelled
sunflower, OR
* A handful of nuts, say 15.
Only low-fat raw vegans (Dr Doug Graham in "The 80/10/10 Diet")
say to eat less, say a Tbsp every other day.
Many nutritionists say you need MORE, 2-4 ounces of nuts or seeds
a day.
Most of us when first going raw eat too much fat! Nuts are a
quick fix. Then slowly the need for fat falls away.
Today I prefer to fill up on fresh fruits and, in the winter,
lightly cooked veggies.
When you eat high-calorie, low-nutrient foods like nuts and
bread, your cells don't get the nutrients they need. Deficiency
leads to disease.
Vegetables are the opposite, high-nutrient, low-calorie. The
nutrients in veggies are phenomenal, thousands of different
chemicals in a single apple!
Our cells are created to sparkle on fresh fruit + veg, not on
nuts and bread.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In "Becoming Raw" dieticians Davis & Melina write:
"Most major health organizations concur that fat intake for
most people should range from 15 to 35 percent of calories. They
also agree that saturated fats, trans-fatty acids (cooked fats)
and cholesterol should be restricted."
Where there's high activity, you need extra fat, say 20% or more
of calories, e.g. pregnancy, lactation, working-out, work stress,
or even just a fast metabolism (need a lot of calories to
maintain your body weight).
Rawfooder David Wolfe, author of "The Sunfood Diet Success
System," mentioned in an interview that he needs 45% fat! David
is a real go-getter.
However, it's clear that low-fat plant-centered diets cure

diabetes and heart disease. So if you're sick, overweight or have
a slow metabolism, then watch the fat. Go for 10% or less of
calories.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Fat from Plants *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Every membrane of every cell in every fruit and vegetable has
healthy polyunsaturated fat.
That's why you can eat a little nuts, seeds or avocado every
other day, rather than every day -- so long as you're eating tons
of raw fruit and vegetables.
Here's a sampling of the fat in plant foods, as a percent of
calories in that food (from "Becoming Raw" by Davis & Melina):
* Oils - 100% fat per calories
* Nuts - macadamia 95%, pecans 94%, walnuts 90%, hazelnuts 87%,
almonds 77%, cashews + pistachio 72%
* Seeds - sunflower 79%, sesame 78%, pumpkin 76%, chia 72%, hemp
56%, flax 41%
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Legumes - peanuts 76%

Fruits - avocado 86%, olives 84%
Leafy greens - 12-14%
Sea vegetables - wakame 13%, kelp 12%
This is NOT the fat content, e.g. avocado is 12% fat, but this
fat provides 72% of the calories (energy) in an avocado. All very
confusing I know.
Just eat from a Tbsp to a half-cup of seeds or nuts a day, and
you'll be okay :) Or an avocado.
One crazy guy (crazy in my eyes) recommends 1/2 to one cup of
good OIL daily! He's Dr Robert Young in "The pH Miracle for
Weight Loss."
I recommend you strive for the day when you NEVER eat oil :)
Enjoy it only as a rare treat when you eat out.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Fat from Nuts + Seeds *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Let's calculate your fat needs in grams.
In a 2,000 calorie diet, 10% fat is just under an ounce a day of
FAT.
Here's how you calculate it (adjust for your calorie needs):

2,000 x 10% = 200 calories from fat
Fat has 9 calories per gram, so 200 / 9 = 22 grams of fat MINIMUM
you need to eat daily, or just under an ounce (28g = 1oz).
Here's GRAMS of fat PER OUNCE of nuts and seeds:
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macadamia nuts - 22g fat per ounce

pecans - 20g
brazil nuts, pine nuts, walnuts - 19g
hazelnuts (filberts) - 17g
almonds, cashew, pistachio - 13g
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pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds - 14g fat per ounce

sesame seeds - 13g
flax seeds - 12g
chia seeds - 9g
hemp seeds - not listed in USDA Nutrient Database :)
1 ounce (28g) in weight = a handful of nuts (15) or a rounded

Tbsp of seeds.
You can see when you eat 2 Tbsp of seeds a day OR a handful of
high-fat nuts OR 2 handfuls of low-fat nuts, you'll meet the
minimum fat need (10% of calories).
The experience of Protein types (fast oxidizers) is that they
need more than 10%.
I'm a Carb type, so I do well on little fat. Though it's hard to
tell because I've never given up cheese for more than 6 months!
Two slices of cheddar cheese (one ounce) has 9.4 grams of fat.
Just 4 thin slices of cheese gives more fat than one Tbsp of
seeds! And cheese is a no-no saturated fat. Seeds are healthy
essential fat.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Best Fat to Eat *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best sources of fat are avocado (a mono-unsaturated fat) and the
edible seeds:
* Chia, Hemp, Flax (linseed) - these give you Omega-3 (ALA),
also in walnuts and leafy greens,
* Pumpkin, Sesame, Sunflower - these give you Omega-6 (LA).
ALA and LA are ESSENTIAL fatty acids, they must be in our diet
because we can't make them. Your body uses ALA to make DHA + EPA
for your brain.
Best way to eat seeds is to soak them first. Then blend them into
milk, yogurt or cream. Or grind them and add to your Smoothie.
Recipes are here:
For a quick fix, I grind my seeds in a coffee grinder, and mash
up with a banana. I use a Tbsp from each group, e.g. chia +
sunflower one day, or flax + pumpkin another. It doesn't matter
which ones you mix, the banana makes it taste okay.
Nuts are not so hot. They're acidic. Go for the seeds first.
I enjoy nuts as a crunchy filler food with my salad, or after my
Smoothie. And there was a time when I ate almond cream every day!
Yum...
One nut, cashews, weaned me off my addiction to chocolate! I'd
eat huge slabs of cashew-date crunch!
Recipe is here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/dhd/recipes.php#cash-date
Funny I haven't made it in years... Goes to show how your needs
change each year. With raw foods, you get a brand new body every
year, like getting a new car for Christmas.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Fat for Energy + Pleasure *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Your body stores energy as fat! When you burn fat, it gives you 9
calories a gram, whereas protein and carbs give only 4 each.
That's why exercise is such a good fat-burner. Without regular
daily exercise, your muscles go flabby and fat infiltrates in.
You lose your strength + stamina, and are injured more easily.
Fat is a pleasure chemical, along with salt and sugar. It
releases the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine in your brain,
very much like cocaine. You get addicted to the dopamine high!
Fast food and factory food makers know this. That's why they lace
their junk with sugar, fat, salt. Read "The Pleasure Trap" by
Douglas Lisle & Alan Goldhamer.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Saturated Fats *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Your body can make all the saturated fat you need, so you don't
need to eat it.
Only animal foods have saturated fat, and a few tropical plants
like coconut, palm oil and chocolate.
Please check the labels on your favorite foods. If it has palm
oil, stop eating it. I finally quit corn chips (baked not fried)
when I saw it's got palm oil.
The vast palm oil plantations are killing off all orangutans and
of course killing their habitat, the forests that are the lungs
of our earth. See:
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
I saw on TV the few saved orangutans rocking back and forth in
small cages, going out of their minds. It's unforgettable, same
as seeing photos of animal lab experiments.
In fish 30% of the fat is saturated, in poultry it's 33%, in red
meat 40% and in dairy 62%!
Saturated fat is linked to osteoporosis (fragile bones) so if you
eat cheese, you're headed for a hip fracture! See:
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat
where they write:
"The data indicates that bone mineral density is negatively
associated with saturated fat intake, and that men may be
particularly vulnerable."
The high protein in dairy also leaches calcium from your bones,
so you're on a double-dip path to bone fractures. Read:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/water/osteo.php
I guess my bones are strong because I eat 95% raw so my body
easily disposes of a few slices of cheese a week.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Begin to experiment with seed milks. The basic recipe is
4 parts water to one part seeds, with a sweetener like dates or
banana.
Essential fat recipes are here:
You MUST invest $20 or so in a coffee grinder, to make seed + nut
milk or yogurt, or to grind a tablespoon of seeds for your Green
Smoothie.
A lot of the chocolate recipes have good fats. A party favorite

is chocolate mousse made with healthy avocado at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/choc.php
You may want to try your hand at Rejuvelac. It's great for making
delicious almond cream! I drank rejuvelac every day for the first
five years, then I went off the taste of fermented things. Recipe
is at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/blend/rejuvelac.php
Occasionally it's fine to use nuts instead of seeds, such as
almond milk or walnut. Or to add a few cashew nuts to your seed
milk to make it creamier.
The problem is most nuts are cooked, they're dehydrated at high
temperature. Whereas most seeds contain the germ of life, you can
sprout them.
Eating LIFE is what it's all about! The more LIFE ENERGY you eat,
the free-er and happier you grow.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: Understand your brain's need for DHA and EPA. Read the
wiki page at:
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosahexaenoic_acid
If you find you're drinking seed milks daily but still:
* your nerves can't cope with stress, or
* your brain is suffering from memory loss,
then it's likely you're not good at converting Omega-3's (ALA)
into DHA. In this case, try a vegan DHA/EPA supplement. Dietician
Brenda Davis lists the best ones at:
==> http://www.brendadavisrd.com/handouts.php?id=28
Saturated fats (like dairy) interfere in the ALA-to-DHA
conversion. So if you're naughty like me, and eat cheese for fat
instead of a seed milk, then you're knocking yourself down with a
double whammy! You not only get insufficient ALA, you also block
the little you do eat from being converted into DHA.
Can you give up dairy? Have you ever lived with a cow? She
doesn't want us suckling on her! She only wants her calf...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
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Next week's class is on Carbohydrates - your filler food.

P.S. "No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the
brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but
all you could do is run for public office." - George Bernard Shaw
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Class 6--Carbohydrates--Your Filler Food

Time to calculate your Calorie needs...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First thing you notice when you start going raw, you're starving
hungry.
Why? Because you're not eating enough calories! Your body is used
to caloric-dense foods like white grains (bread, pasta, rice) and
meat, sugar and oil - the SFS drug.
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1 cup alfalfa sprouts is 6 calories

1 apple is 70 cal, and a banana 100
1 Tbsp oil, or a cup of breakfast cereal, is 120 calories
Or do you love raisin nut bran? Then it's 200 cal
A single hamburger has 275 calories, with
Medium french fries 420 cal, equals
700 calories for hamburger with fries
You need to eat TEN apples, or 116 cups of alfalfa sprouts, to

get the same calories you once ate in a small hamburger with
fries!
For me, 5 apples blended in a Green Smoothie, and 5 cups of
alfalfa sprouts is the max I can eat in one day (of those 2
foods). That's 380 calories, nearly half that ol'
hamburger-fries.
Do you see the problem? The only day you'd eat 100 cups of
alfalfa sprouts is to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
Here's where Carbohydrates come in. They're your FILLER food,

your SUBSTITUTE food, and your CALORIE food.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Calorie Filler Food *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For calories to help you feel full, you have four healthy
choices:
* Fresh sweet fruits - also dried fruits, but dried are best
eaten occasionally as a snack food, not as a filler food.
* Starchy vegetables like butternut, gem squash, yams - either
slow- and low-cooked, or blended/grated in a rawfood recipe like
sweet potato pie. I prefer them cooked, even after years of 95%
raw. I like to bring out the soft sweetness in a butternut by
simmering it a little.
* Whole grains like brown rice or millet - either slow- and
low-cooked, or sprouted. Sprouted grain crackers are more
caloric-dense because they have no water.
* Pseudo-grains - quinoa, amarinth, wild rice, buckwheat - they
look like grains but are not true grains. They're low in starch,
which is good.
We (rawfooders) experience that the fresh glucose in fruit gives
us higher energy than the cooked glucose in starch.
Cooked food vegans are the opposite. They enjoy grains as a good
filler food. They don't feel full on fruit.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Ball Park Needs *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rule-of-thumb is, eat a couple of pounds (1 kg) of raw fruit a
day (300 calories/lb) and a couple of pounds of raw vegetables
(100 cal/lb) equals 800 calories total.
Then get your other 1,200+ calories from fruit or one of the
filler foods:
* Raw or cooked starchy vegetables
* Raw or cooked grains
Vegetables are richer in nutrients than grains, giving us far
more alkaline minerals and phytochemicals, even when cooked. So
they should be our first choice. But I found grains to be nice n
warming in the snowy New York winter.
Dr Doug Graham teaches that raw fruit is best, then cooked
vegetables, then seeds or nuts, rather than grains.
In New York in the 1990's I ate a huge variety of cooked grains

in the winter. But slowly they fell away. Each winter I found
myself eating less grain and more cooked starchy veg.
Today I eat fruit as my chief calorie source. But at the start my
teeth were so painful, I couldn't eat it.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thank you to Dr Doug Graham for giving these calorie guidelines
in "The 80/10/10 Diet," a must-read for everyone who loves fruit.
First calculate the calories you need for your basal metabolic
rate at rest (BMR) - that's the calories you must eat before you
make a single move.
Multiply your body weight (or ideal weight) in pounds by 10 (and
for kg, multiply by 22) e.g.
130 lb x 10 = 1,300 calories needed for your resting BMR, to run
essential functions like your brain and organs.
59 kg x 22 = 1,300 calories you need for BMR.
Then to maintain your body weight, add these calories to your
BMR:
* If you sit at a desk and don't move much for most of the day,
add 200 calories to your BMR.
* If you exercise, add 300 to 600 calories per session depending
on how strongly you work out.
* If you're a homemaker with an active child, add 20% to your
BMR, so if it's 1,300 calories you need, add 260 cal.
* If you're in a physically demanding job, add 800 to 1,600
calories.
* A healthy athletic person in a high level of physical activity
needs to double their BMR. So if you're 130 lb and you move as
humans once moved to get our food out in nature, then you need
2,600 calories daily (1300 + 1300).
If you burn 115 calories a day more than you eat, you will lose a
pound a month.
Better still, when you break free of the SFS drug, you will stay
at your ideal weight for life!
To eat 2,000 calories a day from low-fat raw foods, Doug gives
this sample menu:
* Breakfast - one large honeydew melon - 461 calories

* Lunch - 12-banana smoothie - 1,260 calories
* Dinner - 4 peaches before (153 cal) then one large salad (175
cal) = 328 calories
* Total for Day = 2,049 calories
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Calories in Whole Foods *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Which foods will meet your carb needs the best?
Here's a sampling of the carbohydrate in plant foods, as a
percent of calories in that food (from "Becoming Raw" by Davis &
Melina):
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Sweet Fruits (apple etc) - 92.5%

Starchy Vegetables - 90%
Grains - 75%
Legumes - 70%
Vegetable Fruits (cucumber etc, any veg with seeds) - 58%
Nuts + Seeds - 12.5%
Flesh foods (animal, bird, fish) have zero carbohydrates.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Sprout Grains *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You can sprout these grains - amaranth (I don't like the taste),
brown rice (I found only the short-grain would sprout), raw
buckwheat (not kasha), kamut, unhulled millet, quinoa, rye,
spelt, teff and wheat.
Teff is lovely sprouted into a grass, very soft to eat.
Instructions on how to sprout are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/dhd/recipes.php#grind-wheat
Buckwheat is high in lecithin (which has choline, needed for our
chief neurotransmitter acetylcholine) and in rutin, a
bioflavonoid that strengthens our capillaries.
RECIPE FOR BUCKWHEAT-QUINOA PORRIDGE
I ate this on the express bus from Brooklyn to Manhattan at 9 in
the morning. It lasted me till 2 p.m. then I went for lunch.
Before I learned to make it, I was addicted to buying SFS on my
way to work - muffin and croissant.
* Soak one-quarter cup of raw buckwheat for 20 minutes at about
7 p.m., then drain and leave to sprout
* Next morning soak 2 tablespoons of quinoa for an hour, drain +

leave to sprout, and rinse your buckwheat sprouts
* That evening rinse both jars of sprouts
* Next morning (after buckwheat has sprouted for 36 hours and
quinoa for 24) blend the two with a little soaked dried fruit
(raisins, currants or dates) and fresh fruit (small banana or
apple) and
* Enjoy on the way to work!
* You can also add a Tbsp of ground ALA seed (flax, chia or
hemp) for a nuttier taste, but usually I was in too much of a
rush.
Culling buckwheat and quinoa before sprouting is very quick just remove stones but don't bother about broken seeds. They're
so soft and there's no time for them to go rotten.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Cook Grains *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Remember, it's VARIETY. At one time I had 9 different grains in
my cupboard.
Alternate between amaranth, whole barley (not pearl), corn (on
the cob, eat raw or steam briefly), kamut, hulled millet, oats,
quinoa, brown rice, rye, spelt, wheat, wild rice.
To cook grains, it's one cup of grain to 3 cups of water.
* Measure out the grain and place in a dry bowl
* Measure out the water and bring to the boil in a pot
* Ideal pot is glass or stainless steel with a thick bottom and
a glass lid
* Add the grain, stir with a wooden spoon, and put the lid on
* Turn the heat down to the very lowest possible
* Leave it to simmer lightly and slowly until all the water's
gone
* Never stir grain while it's cooking, you'll make it go soggy
That's for gas heat. If you're using electric, then I add the
grain before the water comes to a boil, and turn it down so that
it slowly begins to simmer.
Through experience, you'll
different grains, e.g. one
here), half-hour for brown
on how crunchy or soft you
cooks.
get to know the different times for

hour for whole barley (use more water
rice, 20 minutes for millet, depending
like it. The more water, the softer it
Add a chunk of seaweed to simmer with the grain. Kombu and whole
kelp are good. Seaweed gives more alkaline minerals to balance

the acid grain, and adds a salty full flavor.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Eat Grains *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It takes about 2 weeks to learn to chew whole grains, and for
your salivary glands to start working correctly, writes Paul
Pitchford in "Healing with Whole Foods."
I never experienced this. I was a bakery addict, but took to
whole grains like a duck to water. Of course I continued to
frequent Mrs Fields Cookies and Dunkin Donuts.
The critical thing is to mix saliva in with the grain. That
begins its digestion. Don't just gulp it down like you do ice
cream.
Try chewing 30 times or more!
Macrobiotic rule is, never refrigerate cooked grains. If you cook
enough for 2 days, then leave it on your counter-top. If it
ferments a little, that's fine, it's sweeter and more digestible.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Substitute Food *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Three forces drive us back to eat junk. When you stop the force
at its source, your desire for junk goes away (over time).
It's easy to satisfy Force 1 and Force 2 every single day! Force
3 takes longer.
* Force 1: Your body-mind needs more Calories - eat more COOKED
carbohydrates like starchy veggies and grains. Don't try to go
raw overnight, unless you're at death's door. So long as the food
is WHOLE from nature (not from a factory) you will heal.
* Force 2: Your body-mind needs more Nutrients - BLEND more RAW
fruits, leafy greens and vegetables. Try the tasty low-fat
recipes of French chef Frederic Patenaude in his book "Instant
Raw Sensations" at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/alinks/fredericsite.html
* Force 3: You're addicted to the tastes + textures of SFS.
This is a biggie. You suffer withdrawal from SFS, just as the
alcoholic or heroin addict does. I withdrew from SFS slowly over
years.
To go at a quicker pace, learn to SUBSTITUTE.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Replace SFS Factory Food with Whole Food *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Raw recipe books give you a wide variety of substitute recipes.
Carrot cake crackers were my favorite, recipe is here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/dhd/recipes.php#carrot-cake
When I set out on raw, I'd take my lunch to work with me sprouted beans (mung or lentil), sprouted greens (e.g. sunflower
greens, buckwheat greens, broccoli, alfalfa), vegetable fruits
(e.g. red or yellow pepper, zucchini, cucumber, summer squash),
green leaves (e.g. lettuce, kale) and for dessert, my home-made
raw crackers.
I needed the crackers for my SFS taste-buds. At that time the veg
+ sprouts tasted lousy to me. Today you can buy raw crackers at
the store. But Beware of SFS. If they have agave nectar, oil,
salt - that's all SFS, it's not WHOLE food.
Problem with crackers is they take time to make, and you need a
dehydrator. I set aside one Saturday every month to dehydrate
enough for the month.
Over several years, as my taste buds grew to enjoy whole plant
foods, I dropped the crackers, and turned to quicker substitutes.
For a quick substitute:
* Look at the food you're craving
* Work out what's in it
* Think of whole foods that also have it.
Eat the whole food first until you're stuffed. Then ask yourself:
"MUST I have this junk TODAY?"
If the answer is a deafening Yes, go to the store and buy your
SFS fix. NEVER keep the drug in your home. If No, put it off for
one day.
When you're FULL with calories, nutrients, and substitute whole
foods, then it's easier to postpone injecting your fix until
tomorrow, one day at a time.
You don't have to give it up for all time, only for today, or for
this moment while you make a Green Smoothie.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Substitute for Chips (crisps + french fries) *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'd crave a packet of chips (UK crisps) on my way home from work
in Manhattan. I forced myself to walk past the store.
As soon as I got home, I ate a big bowl of cooked millet with
avocado, dulse flakes, and nutritional yeast, all mashed up
together. I kept a container of cooked millet on my counter-top,
and cooked a new pot every 2-3 days.
I felt full. And no desire to go all the way out again to buy
chips. I know it's more effort, but the journey's worth it.
What's in chips? Carbs (potato), oil and salt. My substitute
gives me carbs (millet), oil (avocado) and salt (dulse) with
nutritional yeast for a cheesier taste.
Today I leave out the yeast. It's too processed for me. And I
make this bowl only in the winter with quinoa (not millet). I no
longer crave chips on a hot day in the summer. I recognize my
body's need for salt and eat sea vegetables, mainly dulse.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Substitute for Ice Cream *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I was never able to find a quick substitute for ice cream. First
I bought the soya ice creams.
Then as I evolved away from factory foods, I made my own ice
cream. You freeze fresh fruits and run them through a single-gear
juicer, see recipes here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/desserts.php
I grew tired of a dirty juicer when all I wanted was ice cream.
So next, I blended fresh fruit with banana (sometimes shredded
coconut too) and froze it in small containers. To eat, I'd slice
it into a bowl and mash with a fork.
For chocolate ice cream, I froze peeled bananas. Then mashed up a
frozen banana with chocolate powder. Today I'd use raw cacao
powder. Add organic maple syrup if you want big-time sweet.
Finally my body evolved out of frozen foods! Today I far prefer
fresh banana to frozen banana.
I never think of ice cream. If I want one on a boiling hot day, I
enjoy a small popsicle with no binge reaction, perhaps one a
year.
Where did my ice cream black-outs go, when I polished off a
half-gallon of vanilla choc chip in one day? Then bought another

half-gallon the next day?
I don't know. Somewhere along the line, it all vaporized. Each
summer you buy fewer half-gallons because the desire goes.
When you suppress a desire, or repress it, are you free? When the
desire is no longer inside you, that's when you are truly free.
Recognize the three forces that will set you free - calories,
nutrients, and substitute whole foods.
Ha! Bet you never heard that calories will set you free!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Try to invest in a single-gear or twin-gear juicer now.
It's the best way to enjoy raw ice cream, desserts, candies, and
fresh nutrient-rich juices.
When you get the nutrients, you lose the cravings.
See the variety of foods these juicers will make at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/best.php
The more green juices you drink - that's wheatgrass with leafy
greens - the quicker your SFS addiction will go.
Green juices clean you out, and are rich in the nutrients your
body is starving for. Recipes are here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/vegejuice.php
Include wheatgrass juice at:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/wheatgrass.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: It's critical you understand carbohydrates in depth, how
to buy them - and the teachings of the different schools like
macrobiotics, natural hygiene, raw fooders, and integrative
medical doctors.
Each school has radically different views! See which one you
harmonize with, here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/carbs-1.php
Go through all seven pages, so you end up at:

==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/carbs-7.php
Our snuggle food, our comfort food is carbohydrate. It was the
first cooked food to pass our lips. We love its sweetness.
Our cultural icons are cereal for breakfast, bread for lunch, and
potatoes or white rice for dinner.
These are all the SFS drug. Set your sights on breaking free.
Slowly switch to fruits, starchy vegetables, and whole grains.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next week's class is on individualizing your diet for your
environment and your internal world (thoughts and feelings).
P.S. "It is important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast,
because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the
best source." - Dr. Andrew Weil
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Class 7--Nurturing You

You learned about nature (genes) in Class 3. Today let's deal
with your nurturing (environment)...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Depression and negative thinking create more acid in your system
than any food or drink can.
Luckily raw foods take you to a new high!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Switch Your Thoughts + Feelings
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A quick way is to ask a positive question. Don't make a positive

statement such as: "I feel so good today!"
Instead, ask yourself: "Why am I feeling so good in this moment?"
Especially when you feel terrible!
* "Why do I love this person?" Ask it when you're mad at
someone.
* "Why am I grateful for this food?" Ask it when you're eating
junk and your mind is whipping you.
Statements we don't believe. But a positive question forces your
mind to think about it, and find a positive answer!
Once I was tying my shoelaces, I wasn't particularly feeling
anything. I asked: "Why am I feeling so good in this moment?"
Then found myself replying: "because there's no holes in my
shoes!"
When I was a hippie, I walked the streets of London in the
freezing snow with holes in my shoes.
Out-of-the-blue 38 years later I feel the fun of being a hippie,
painting each other's naked bodies and playing our guitars,
flutes and drums.
I never drank in that year of LSD and mescaline. Alcohol is so
gross! Truly you see how gross it is when you're tripping :)
Try positive questions. Where your thoughts go, your feelings
will follow.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Work + Stress *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The more stimuli your nervous system must respond to, the more
you need essential fatty acids (EFA's).
The human brain is built on the soft flexibility of EFA's,
especially the long-chain fats like DHA and EPA.
When I worked in Manhattan, New York, I needed a seed milk every
evening when I arrived home.
On my way to work, crossing the road at 3rd Avenue + 50th, can
you picture the multiple lanes of cars I had to weave between?
Even at the traffic light, you keep a beady eye open for crazy
couriers racing through on their bikes.
Wow, how many stimuli is that? Hitting your nerves and brain all
at once!
Today in my quiet suburb in a small town at the bottom of Africa,

the only road I cross in the morning is my own street to walk my
dog. Most days there's not a single car. We run together in a big
field opposite.
I never drink seed milks any more! They make me feel sick, it's
too much fat for me all at once. Yet if I were still working in a
law office in New York City I'm sure I'd need them again.
Young children especially need seed milks for their growing
brains and all the new connections their neurons are making at
such a rapid pace.
When you hear a low-fat raw vegan preach that you don't need more
than 10% fat, remember this: fat is linked to what YOUR nerves
need, not to what preachers say.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Depressed No More *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Depression is an inability to respond to life's stimuli. It's too
much for your brain. It's missing the chemical molecules it needs
to build brain cells (neurons) and shoot out their
electro-chemical messages.
Can you build a house without tools?
The true miracle in my life is the way raw and living foods
lifted me up, out of black-out depression. Ever since I was 15
and my dad was suddenly killed, I wanted to be dead. My teenage
brain stupidly computed, "if life can be snuffed out so easily,
what's the point of living?"
Today when a loved one dies, I feel the opposite, "wow, life is
so fragile, I better go for my dreams today!"
What did living foods do? Single-handedly, with little willpower
from me? They flew me up up and away into an unfathomable blue
sky sunshine of laughter.
Truly I know why a baby laughs! Once I sat in front of the TV
until I passed out on tequila and orange juice. Now I turn the TV
on and laugh like a baby. For no reason, it wells up out of my
tummy.
Life is so *funny* FUN funny! Of course it helps to watch Animal
Planet and not CNN :)
Where do you get the tools you need to change your brain and
emotions?
These molecules are in leafy greens (a lb a day, blended or
juiced) and in seed milks - your two brain foods.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Food for Your Brain *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Leafy Greens you need for your brain's electro-chemical signals.
* The minerals sodium + potassium (both high in greens) carry
electrical signals down each neuron.
* Then to jump to the next neuron, the signal turns into a
peptide chemical, a neurotransmitter.
* Greens give your neurons the amino acids they need to build
neurotransmitters.
Seeds (with their ALA and LA) you need to:
* Make prostaglandins, hormones you make in every cell (except
red blood cells). These hormones oversee your response to
stimuli, and to other hormones and brain messages.
* Build the actual neurons and their branches (dendrites).
Picture a tree trunk with lots of branches. That's a neuron. The
more stimuli, the more branches you need to grow, to respond.
The more branches, the more neurotransmitters you need, to
connect with other branches. Thus groups of trees form neural
networks.
These tree trunks and branches are all built with the essential
fats ALA and LA. Do you recall which seeds have them? (see Class
5-Fat)
If you need extra brain molecules - you're eating a high-green,
high-seed diet but still suffer memory loss, negativity or
depression - then look to a micro-algae supplement for DHA and
EPA. It's also in cold-water fish.
Wikipedia writes at wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosahexaenoic_acid: "the
increased global demand for DHA in the form of fish-oil capsules
simply can not be met. In 2003, it was estimated that large
predatory fish populations had declined 90% since the 1950s."
Rather choose a vegan DHA/EPA supplement here:
==> http://www.brendadavisrd.com/handouts.php?id=28
Did you know, the fish get their fats from eating plankton (green
algae)? They need the DHA to stay flexible at icy temperatures
but they're like us, they can't make it! (we can make DHA from
ALA, but fish don't eat seeds)
It makes more sense to eat your greens and seeds, rather than
have the fats pass through the fish first. Let them enjoy their
swim...
Same goes for calcium. It's crazy to eat cow milk for calcium
when the cows get their calcium from grass. They can't make
calcium! Minerals are little rocks.
Go to the source, the plant world :)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Weather + Seasons *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We looked into how genes and climate are connected. But the
season itself is huge in influencing what food you need for YOU,
uniquely today.
In winter I have a bigger need for protein and starch. The low
fat raw vegan world says all you need in the cold is to eat more
calories, that is, more fruit.
That's not my experience. In the freezing New York winter, I
always needed a daily dish of cooked grains, steamed sprouted
beans (chick pea and soya were my favorite) and steamed winter
greens like collard.
I'd cook enough grain for 2 days, then warm up half in a little
water with my sprouted beans and greens. Sprouted beans + fibrous
greens need only a few minutes to soften into the sweetest taste.
Whereas to cook raw dried beans like aduki takes at least an
hour.
In hot South Africa, the grains fell away over a few winters. The
last one to go was raw oats (not really raw because oat groats
are steamed). I'd grind my whole oat groats in a coffee grinder,
then soak it for half-hour, then sometimes eat it raw and
sometimes warmed on the stove to finger warmth.
Today the only grain I enjoy is the light pseudo-grain quinoa. I
cook it in the winter, takes 10-15 minutes. And I enjoy sprouted
rye bread all year round, a few slices a week.
With protein, in the summer I never sprout any beans (and never
cook any). But come the winter, and my sprout jars come out for
mung beans.
I like to sprout mung for a few days, then eat it raw with
freshly-ground almonds and banana. I grind a handful of almonds
in my coffee grinder, mash this almond flour into a big banana
and sprinkle my sprouts on top. I know it sounds gross (protein,
fat, fruit in one meal) but it works for me as a high-protein
fix.
If you get digestive distress after eating, like gas or cramps,
or headaches, then you know it's not working for you! Google
"food combining."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exercise *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The more you work out, the more calories you burn, so the more
food you need. But you know that :)
After body-surfing I'm starving hungry! I used to eat oats,
ground and soaked. These days I prefer tons of fruit.
Exercise is the best way to feel good too! Your runner's high. I
find the longer I sustain it - swimming several lengths of
freestyle before I switch to back stroke - then the more
endorphins are released.
Try this when you wake in the mornings, before you get up, sing
along while hugging yourself across your solar plexus:
"Every little cell in my body is happy
Every little cell in my body is well."
Then jump a few minutes on a rebounder (mini-trampoline) at an
open window or outdoors. Get that fresh oxygen into the tiny
capillaries of your brain.
Anything is better than nothing, that's my philosophy. Three
minutes on a rebounder is better than no exercise.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Invest in a rebounder, a cheap one works fine. It's the
best for pumping your lymph along. Your blood is pumped by your
heart. But lymph relies on you to move, for it to move! Lymph is
what surrounds each cell. No nutrient goes into a cell, no waste
leaves it, without passing through the lymph. Stagnant lymph is a
big no-no.
Ask yourself positive questions all day!
* FEELING good feelings, and
* THINKING good thoughts
* Is more critical to your health than eating good food.
In time, fresh raw plant foods will take you to a world where you
feel good every day. You stand tall. Courage leads you on. And
Serendipity lifts you ever higher.
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READING: Teeth problems are a big headache for raw fooders. When
you don't eat enough calories in a meal, then you snack, and
snack, and snack.
You don't give your saliva the break it needs to re-mineralize
your teeth!
Read how to protect your teeth here, this is critical info:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/teeth.php
The biggest error you can make is to eat too many nuts and dried
fruits at the start, because you always feel hungry. It's better
to sit down to a big meal of cooked grains or starchy vegetables,
than be 100% raw with too many nuts.
Fat in excess is simply not good for you! It sludges up your
blood so oxygen and nutrients can't reach your cells.
What about your colon? The other end of your GI
(gastro-intestinal) tract. There's thick black rubber lining your
colon. It stops you from absorbing nutrients.
Learn WHY and HOW to clean your colon here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/colon.php
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next week's class is on the 5 schools of healing. What do the
gurus say you should do? Which do you resonate with?
P.S. You go first, then others will follow. "Thousands of candles
can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will
not be shortened." - Buddha quote
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Class 8--Healing Schools


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What do the gurus say you SHOULD do? And which do you resonate
with?
In nutritional healing, the top five schools are:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Doctor School *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - These are the medical doctors and naturopaths who use food first
to treat illness. Most are vegan (vegetarian with no dairy) while
a few recommend a little flesh such as lean fish or egg once or
twice a week.
Here we find Drs. Neal Barnard (Foods Can Save Your Life), Joel
Fuhrman (Eat To Live), John McDougall (The McDougall Plan),
Caldwell Esselstyn (Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease), Dean
Ornish (Reversing Heart Disease) and so on, the list is huge!
THUMBS UP for Doctors -- their teachings are moderate and easy to
follow. For the doctor school, it's alright to eat sugar-free jam
from the farmer's market, and a quick dish of brown rice pasta
with bottled sauce. These are Big No-Nos for the other schools.
The doctors taught me the easiest way to stick to whole foods -try vegetarian recipe books until you find a dozen dishes you
love. And don't be an extremist: chocolate pudding is A-okay -just make it with tofu from soya beans, not with milk from cows.
THUMBS DOWN for Doctors -- they never showed me how to break free
of my addictions.
These doctors treat patients with serious illness like cancer and
heart disease. Such patients are highly motivated to switch to
healthy food. Their life is at stake!
For me, I had to buy donuts and chocolate day after merciless
day. I had no power to say no. I was vegetarian, I juiced, I ate
salads, grew bean sprouts, cooked rice and beans, and took my
supplements.
But I still had to get to the bakery. It eased my stress. Sugar
gave me a buzz. It helped me squash down what I knew, that my job
at a law firm was not really me. Ah yes, SFS keeps us in zombie
mode...
My biochemistry was unbalanced. You know you have imbalanced
biochemistry when you get cravings you can't say not to, or when
you get "normal" pains like toothache and colds.
My pain was not great enough to motivate me to change. I had not
been told I'd die if I did not stick to a healthy diet. So I did
not.
To see my addictions fly away forever, I needed:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Living Food School *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Popularized by the late Dr. Ann Wigmore -- her books saved my
life. I recommend every one, especially "The Sprouting Book."
Living fooders eat a vegan organic diet -- but it's all raw and
ALIVE. A food is alive if it's still growing when you eat it,
such as a bean sprout, a ripening fruit, a freshly-picked
lettuce, a nut or seed fermenting into yogurt.
Both paleontology and biochemistry are on the side of living
foods. For millions of years we homo's plucked our food live from
a tree, or out of the ground or sea.
Apart from losing a little hair, growing more brain and a foot or
so in height, our bodies have not changed much since the early
hominid, Lucy, was born 3.5 million years ago in Ethiopia. Fire
we discovered about half to one million years ago.
About 100,000 years ago, our modern human brain and language
appears. Even that is attributed to the fresh sea foods we ate,
like raw shellfish.
THUMBS UP for Living Foods -- when you eat living foods, you heal
fastest. Every Single School Agrees that Raw Living Plant Foods
Are the Best HEALING Diet (except macrobiotics, they stick to
their cooked brown rice).
Living foods BALANCE YOUR BIOCHEMISTRY so cravings go. A living
plant is in perfect balance. Lettuce loses 60% of its vitamin C
within 24 hours of picking.
Living foods for a living body. There's a clear difference
between life and death. You don't sit down to tea with a dead
person. So why swallow death?
THUMBS DOWN for Living Foods -- they healed me, but most people
can't eat raw foods only, especially when it's snowing! I was
freezing cold and starving hungry in a New York winter, without
cooked grains.
How to find a healthy balance? For this, I was helped by:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Macrobiotic School *
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Macrobiotics recognizes two forces in the universe -- expansion,

called yin, and contraction, called yang.
These forces pull in opposite directions, creating movement and
change. But they also attract each other, so as to create
balance.
They're like a loving couple in a tug-of-war. Or your breath -once you've breathed in (expanded) you must breathe out
(contract).
Some foods are more yang, contracting, like grains -- picture a
tight little kernel of rice. Some are so contracting they make
you tense and violent, like meat and eggs. Try going vegetarian
for a month, then eat some meat, and you'll experience this.
Other foods are more yin, expanding, like fruit -- picture a big
watery melon. Some are so yin, they make you spaced out and
lethargic, like sugar and drugs.
The secret is to eat a balance of yin and yang. The macrobiotic
teacher who helped me was Annemarie Colbin, author of "Food and
Healing" and top-notch cookery books.
THUMBS UP for Macrobiotics -- it's a clean diet, organic
vegetarian (with some fish) whole foods. It teaches you how to
cook easy delicious meals. It gives you a feel for balance -mixing colors, shapes, textures.
THUMBS DOWN for Macrobiotics -- it's mostly all cooked. I've met
sickly cancer patients on a macrobiotic diet who will not touch a
single raw food. This is shocking to me, and goes against all the
laws of biochemistry. I pray for them to blend Energy Soup.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Raw Food School *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thank you to the Internet for spreading the raw food movement!
Raw fooders are split into four groups, depending on their chief
calorie-rich food:
* Vegans who eat high-fruit raw, popularized in Dr Doug Graham's
book "The 80/10/10 Diet" - 80% of calories are from fresh fruit.
Doug's book inspired me to lose my fear of fruit.
* Vegans who eat high-fat raw, popularized by Dr Robert Young
and Dr Gabriel Cousens (Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine). Here up
to 45% of calories are from fat in the form of nuts, seeds,
avocado, durians (a tropical fruit) and olives. Not my cup of
tea, you avoid sweet fruits for 3 months!
* Vegans who eat 85% raw, and meet their calorie needs with
cooked carbohydrates like starchy vegetables and grains. They

prefer this to an excess of sweet fruit or nuts. Leaders here are
Rev. George Malkmus and Dr Alan Goldhamer. I like this in winter.
* Non-vegans who eat raw meat too, so flesh is their chief
calorie source. Called the paleodiet, Daniel Vitalis is a leader
here.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Living Foods + Raw Foods *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What's the difference between living foods and raw foods?
Living fooders try to eat most of our food alive, so we'll
ferment almonds into almond cream.
Raw fooders are not so fussy about the life force. They'll make a
pie crust with unsoaked ground almonds + dried figs - the ratio
is 2 parts nuts to one part dried fruit.
I used to love pie crust, with blended mango inside, and cashew
cream on top (blend a cup of cashews with half a cup of raw
dates).
Today I can't digest the complex mixtures in raw food recipe
books. I'm happier with a whole papaya, or a lightly cooked gem
squash.
But I needed them at the start. These recipes help you to enjoy
raw food. They satisfy your SFS addictions. So you get raw pizza
and raw pecan pie.
ANY whole plant food is better than SFS! But over time it's best
to let it go. I agree with Doug Graham who says:
"If it looks like pizza and tastes like pizza, then it's
probably not good for you, even if it's raw."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The Flesh School *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drs Joseph Mercola and Jonny Bowden are well-known here. Also
ex-raw vegan writers Susan Schenck (The Live Food Factor) and
David Rainoshek (There Is A Cure for Diabetes). They claim humans
have always been omnivores, you can't meet all your nutrient
needs from plants.
Funnily enough, natural hygiene claims the exact opposite! They
say that fresh fruit and vegetables is the species-specific diet
of humans. It's tempting to believe this, when it's so easy to
reach for an apple, and so hard to kill an animal or even a fish.
I agree that vegans are the guinea pigs. There has never been a
vegan society in the history of humans. Digs of the earliest
modern humans, such as Blombos cave in South Africa (70,000
years) and Jebel Irhoud cave in Morocco (108,000 years) show that
the first humans ate shell fish. These are exceptionally high in
essential fatty acids for our unique human brain.
For myself, I want to be a guinea pig. I'm not one yet. I manage
to go vegan for a few months at a time. Then cheese lures me
back. No other dairy attracts me.
I believe we have the knowledge and widely available foods to go
vegan. We know about chia seeds and micro-algae oils!
In 1971-2, I was lucky enough to be in a vegetarian hippy
community in London, so I stopped eating animals, birds, fish and
eggs when I was 23 (except for egg hidden in cake).
A supportive environment makes such a HUGE difference! As I found
in Alcoholics Anonymous too. The community carries you.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Will One Shoe Fit All? *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I used to think I'd sooner die than eat an animal, fish or bird.
Today I'm realizing how unique each person is, and how radically
we change from year to year.
Is there one diet that is right for everyone, every day of the
year? In my experience, there never has been and there never will
be a universally healthy diet.
However, we do each feel more at home with one or two schools.
For me it's Ann Wigmore (sprouts + living greens), Doug Graham
(fresh fruit) and George Malkmus (cooked carbs in the winter).
Google the leaders of the ones you like. And
* Subscribe to my Newsletter at http://www.greensmoothie.com/
Every week I send you links to the very latest interviews,
teleseminars, webinars, so you get to hear the leaders in each
school first-hand. Usually you can listen in for free, and online
for 24-48 hours afterwards.
Watch this video of Kevin Gianni interviewing Dr J.E. Williams:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/alinks/KGnativediets.html
Dr Williams describes his 40-year research with indigenous
tribes. They eat diets ranging from 100% meat in the frozen
north, to 100% carbs in the tropics, yet they outlive us!
Only when fractionated factory foods come into your world,

disease sets in. Your #1 goal is to move from factory food to
whole plant food. If you need to add some eggs, fish or meat, go
for it.
Listen to your body. You are an exquisitely beautiful strand in
the web of life.
"What percent raw are you?" "Are you vegan or vegetarian?" Has
anyone ever asked you this?
To me they're superiorcist questions. They imply hierarchies. I
just tell people:
"I'm me. Today I'm vegetarian, mostly raw. I'd like to be
vegan, but I enjoy cheese. Sometimes I give it up for a few
months. I went vegetarian in 1972 for spiritual reasons. I can't
see myself eating flesh, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Don't put me in a box, it's stuffy in there."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Eat It Fresh *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All schools agree on one thing - eat your food freshly picked (or
slaughtered) and organic!
Meat leader Dr Mercola writes in his ebook "Discover the Magic of
Nutritional Typing" that:
"Not only do we advise and help our patients obtain fresh,
locally grown, organic food, but we also recommend that you eat
as much of your food raw as possible. Eating raw will preserve
the nutritional integrity of your food.
If you do cook your food, then it is very important to use our
low-temperature cooking guidelines, as this will minimize the
amount of heat damage that you cause to your food."
I don't touch GMO (genetically modified organisms). It's in most
factory food, even in the yeast used for bread. Get the free
audio download from http://seedsofdeception.com. Educate
yourself.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Your Homework *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ACTION: Continue to SUBSTITUTE. Eat whole foods, not junk food.
Put your hand on your heart and say out loud, send this message
to the Universe:
"I'm eating whole foods only today. Whole foods for LIFE."
Figure out, what am I craving in the junk food? Is it the sugar

and fat in McDonald's milkshake? Then blend lots of fruit with
cashew nuts, and enjoy!
Don't worry if it's a poor food combination. It's a lot healthier
than the junk!
In nature, you get protein, fat and carbohydrate, all together in
one food. Even leafy greens are busy making their own fats.
Whole foods will take you to a world where a new dawn arises in
your life, day upon day in ways you can't dream.
You never know what new surprise is round the corner, as you grow
into your wholeness, your full potential.
One year it was friends, I began making a lot more friends.
Another year it was a need to sing the praises of God/dess, so
now I go to a church where we sing our lungs out in Gratitude! I
thought I'd never step foot inside a church again.
You expand, you embrace, you become a river flowing into an ocean
of Love. You grow out of the concepts, the rigid beliefs.
So beautiful is the journey, so full of Miracles.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - READING: Understand how enzymes work in your body, their
substrate-specific nature. Read:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/juice/compare.php#electrons
Once you understand enzymes, then you see the critical importance
of fresh, local, organic, raw.
Would you like to read my own very favorite page I ever wrote?
It's "How to Grow into Raw Foods" here:
==> http://www.greensmoothie.com/eat/commit.php
It's a path of surrender. I always prayed for surrender. Until I
realized surrender is a growth process in understanding and
commitment.
The more you understand, the more you commit. The more you
commit, the more you understand...
It's not just about food. It's listening to Gandhi, BE the change
you want to see in the world.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - That's it folks! Congratulations on completing your 8-week

class... Actually I'm sneaking you a 9th class next week, on
serving the Light :)
P.S. "If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to
realize your potential." - Joseph Campbell
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Class 9--Serving the Light

Hi -- here's a sweet follow-up to your 8-week health class on How
to Eat for YOUR unique needs...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Today is 2 simple quotes from "Animals and The Afterlife" by Kim
Sheridan (Kindle Edition, Hay House, 2006).
The significant words are:
"We wish you success with your very important work--it is
considered so important to the Infinite Light that St. Martin de
Porres took time out of his work to stand behind you at a
seminar."
This is such a comforting book, and it's only $2.99 in kindle!
No kindle? You can download a free kindle reader for your device
(PC, Mac, ipad, iphone, android, etc) at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_c
n?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200127470
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * "Animals And The Afterlife" by Kim Sheridan *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - begin quote from Kim's book...
Over the years while researching this book, I attended
presentations given by all of the popular mediums, including
George Anderson, John Edward, Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh,

Rosemary Altea, Suzane Northrop, and others. This was before
mediums were a regular part of prime-time television. For those
who still may not know, a medium is a person who is able to
receive information from those who have passed over to the Other
Side and deliver messages to those of us on this side, thereby
acting as a bridge between the physical world and the world of
spirit. Like animal communicators, mediums often bring tremendous
comfort to those who are grieving the loss of a loved one.
... I was delighted (though not surprised) to find that the
subject of animals came up at each and every group reading I
attended.
... I never actually received a personal message during these
group readings, but something very significant did happen when I
went to see psychic medium George Anderson. I brought my copies
of the books "We Don't Die" (written about George Anderson by
Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski) and "Lessons from the Light"
(written by George Anderson and Andrew Barone), for George to
autograph, which he did during a break.
After the seminar was over, I asked Andrew Barone (George
Anderson's co-author), who was also at the seminar, to autograph
my copy of "Lessons from the Light" as well. At that time, he
appeared glad to see me and told me that George had asked him to
keep an eye out for me, because he had something for me. My mind
was racing as I wondered what it could be.
He then gave me a beautiful framed picture that George had
asked him to give to me. It was a picture of a saint with
animals, and he told me it was St. Martin de Porres, whom George
had seen standing behind me when I had approached him for an
autograph earlier that evening. He had somehow felt compelled to
bring the picture with him on the airplane to this particular
seminar, and as Andrew told me later, "I thought it was odd when
George told me he packed it, but after this many years I have
learned not to question why the souls [those in spirit] ask
George to carry a picture clear across the country--there will
always be a good reason."
When I first looked at the picture, I was stunned. There was a
dog looking up at the saint, and also at his feet were a cat, a
bird, and a rat all sharing food from the same bowl. All of the
animals in the picture were meaningful to me, as my life has been
deeply touched by all of these types of animals. However, I was
particularly struck by the rat in the picture.
How unusual for a rat to be portrayed so prominently in a
portrait of a saint, I thought to myself, and how appropriate!
George Anderson had never met me before and had no idea who I was
(or that I would be at the seminar that night), nor did he have
any way of knowing that the animals I've loved and rescued
throughout my life have included so many rats (in addition to the
other animals portrayed). By the time this event took place,

dozens of rescued rats had entered my life, and they now had
their own room. I felt a surge of sheer delight and wonder as I
gazed at the rat in the picture.
I was equally struck by the fact that I instantly knew where I
would hang the picture in my home. In fact, I had left a space
open for it and now realized that I had somehow been expecting
it. There is a corner in a hallway of my home with a few pictures
of spiritual figures with animals. Jameth and I refer to this as
the sacred hallway, and this sacred corner is just outside the
rats' room. When I originally hung the pictures there, for some
reason, I felt compelled to hang them in such a way that there
was a spot left open for one more picture. I just had a feeling
(though I had no idea why) that an ideal picture would be
arriving for that spot, so I should leave it open. As soon as
Andrew gave me the picture from George, I knew that was it.
I was deeply moved when I received this most precious gift,
and I asked Andrew to thank George for me. I wanted to thank him
myself, but by then there were many people crowded around him so
I never got the chance that night; but I went away feeling that
something profound had just taken place.
I hung the picture that very night and it fit perfectly in the
space left open for it. To this day, it hangs right over the
hallway where the rats run and play when they joyfully bound out
of their room, frolicking and running freely. Interestingly, in
the picture, the saint is holding a broom, and he and the animals
are standing on a tile floor. The hallway in our home has a tile
floor, and a favorite game of the rats is to climb up and down a
very similar broom, which is kept nearby.
I really didn't know much about saints when this took place. I
knew who St. Francis was (often referred to as the patron saint
of animals, and known for his ability to communicate with
animals), and I had always delighted in the fact that I was born
in St. Francis Hospital, but I had never even heard of St. Martin
de Porres. When I asked Andrew who this particular saint was, he
told me, "The saint George saw standing behind you (that was how
he knew you worked with animals) was St. Martin de Porres, who,
like St. Francis, believed every thing on the earth that was
alive had a soul and was part of God's family (which ran contrary
to the Church's stance--and often got him in plenty of trouble)."
He added, "We wish you success with your very important work--it
is considered so important to the Infinite Light that St. Martin
de Porres took time out of his work to stand behind you at a
seminar."
Later, I did more research on St. Martin de Porres, and I was
further amazed at what I discovered. He was born in 1579 in Lima,
Peru, and at a young age, he joined a Dominican priory
(monastery). The son of a Spanish officer and a freed black
woman, he referred to himself as a "mulatto dog," but he was
known in his community as the "father of charity." He is often

called the patron saint of social justice and is a popular saint
for those who feel despised or who experience deep suffering. He
took care of the poor, the sick, the abandoned, and those who
were looked down upon due to race, social class, and even
species.
St. Martin de Porres had a vast knowledge of herbal medicines
and was known for his amazing cures. He was also gifted with
prophecy, clairvoyance, and other such abilities. The startling
miracles he performed, which included raising the dead, caused
Martin to be called a saint in his own lifetime. Even sick and
injured animals came to him for healing, and he set up a
shelter/hospital for stray cats and dogs and nursed them back to
health (an incredible thing to do back in those days).
To this day he is remembered for his love of animals. He never
ate meat, and he extended his love even to rats and mice, whose
scavenging he excused on the grounds that they were hungry. As he
put it, "The poor little things don't have enough to eat." I was
covered in goose bumps as I learned that this incredible saint
felt the same love and concern for animals--including rats--that
I had always felt.
As great as his healing abilities were, I discovered that St.
Martin is probably best remembered for the "legend of the rats."
It is said that the prior (his superior at the monastery)
objected to the rats, so he ordered Martin to set out poison for
them. Martin obeyed, but he also felt deep compassion for them.
So he went out into the garden and called softly to the rats--and
out they came. He told them about the poison and assured them
that he would feed them every day in the garden, if they would
stop annoying the prior. This they agreed upon, and forever
after, they never troubled the monastery.
Though I certainly don't claim to be a saint, I was amazed at
the parallels between his life and my own. I, too, have always
felt a deep compassion for the underdogs of our world, including
rats. I, too, take in many sick and injured animals, treating
them with various herbal remedies; and my home is often referred
to as a "rat hospital" where amazing healings take place. I, too,
am a vegetarian (a vegan, actually), and although I am now well
aware of the health benefits of such a diet, my original impetus
to give up meat was my love for animals.
The more I learned about St. Martin de Porres, the more
significant his presence became to me. He is also known as the
"Saint of the Broom" (for his devotion to his work, no matter how
menial), and he called himself "Brother Broom." I now think of
him every time I sweep the floor, and every time my beloved "rat
children" joyfully climb up and down the broom during playtime.
St. Martin is truly an inspiration to me in my own commitment to
protecting creation and promoting the sacredness of life in all
forms. I am forever grateful to George Anderson for making me
aware of this most remarkable saint. (For more information on

psychic medium George Anderson, visit www.GeorgeAnderson.com.)"
...end of quote from Kim's book
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Second Quote from "Animals And The Afterlife"
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I need to give you this quote too. It's a reminder how painful
life is for rats imprisoned in vivisection labs.
begin quote from Kim's book...
"One time, I called an animal communicator to find out why
June [the first rat Kim saved] was lethargic and didn't seem to
feel well. The first thing the animal communicator said was that
the back of June's hand hurt. I wondered why that could be; it
made no sense to me. Later I recalled an incident that had
occurred just the day before, which the animal communicator had
no way of knowing about:
June had been on the kitchen counter, where she often kept
Jameth and me company as we prepared meals or washed dishes. We
always soaked various beans, grains, and seeds in glass jars
filled with purified water and covered with plastic lids. June
always flipped the plastic lids off of the jars to sample what
was inside. However, this time one of the jars had been covered
with a heavy ceramic saucer instead of the usual lightweight
plastic lid, so when she flipped it up, it slammed back down on
the back of her hand.
I watched helplessly as she squeaked and held her hand in
pain, looking just like a little person holding an injured hand
as if to say, "Ouch!" I felt awful about it and did my best to
comfort her. She soon went about her business as if nothing had
ever happened, so I assumed everything was okay.
As I now recalled this forgotten incident, I thought to
myself, No wonder the back of her hand hurts!"
...end of quote from Kim's book
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Born to Experience The Light *
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The St. Martin de Porres quote from Kim's book reminds you and me
that:
* We are born to serve The Light
* Serendipity flows into our life when we serve, everything
falls into place...
It's as if a divine hand is placing all the pieces of the puzzle

perfectly together. All we need is the willingness to be picked
up and placed where we belong, a willingness to get clean and
sober.
Do you feel ready now to turn to God's food - whole organic food
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not send us food in boxes, cans, jars + foil. She drops apples
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Joy is in following your path, a path so important to the
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angels too. And our loved ones who have passed...
When you switch to God's food - whole natural foods - you receive
the strength to Realize Your Dreams.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Questions *
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Break Free of Pain & Addiction

(c) copyright 2011, Valerie K. Archer, all rights reserved

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Wondering What To Eat? *

28-day Transition to Raw, and

Study ONE CLASS A WEEK and

* Class 1--Breaking Free of Addiction. You WILL be free one day.

* Class 3--Your Metabolic Type. Nature-Nurture - you know it's

Class 1--Breaking Free of Addiction

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Knowledge Sets You Free *

Are you in pain? Is it self-inflicted?

I would line up in a row and drink on the 365th day.

Chief difference between Green Smoothie and Energy Soup is:

Class 2--Overcoming Pain

foods only from Tuesday to Thursday at my job, then do the Herald

I never gave up anything. I just added good things in. Some

greens are so high in protein:

Class 3--Your Metabolic Type

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * How to Discover Your Metabolic Type *

In fact there's tons of metabolic markers that measure your

beauty and truth." - Albert Einstein

Class 4--Protein--Your Energy Food

Registered dieticians Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina sum it up

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Protein from Plants *

Supplements: spirulina 68 grams, dried shiitake mushrooms 38

daily for more protein (about 1/2 cup).

* Cook in fresh water with kombu or kelp seaweed - 1 cup seaweed

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Digesting Your Protein *

Class 5--Fat--Your Brain Food

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Ball Park Needs *

However, it's clear that low-fat plant-centered diets cure

Legumes - peanuts 76%

Here's how you calculate it (adjust for your calorie needs):

macadamia nuts - 22g fat per ounce

pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds - 14g fat per ounce

1 ounce (28g) in weight = a handful of nuts (15) or a rounded

A lot of the chocolate recipes have good fats. A party favorite

Next week's class is on Carbohydrates - your filler food.

Class 6--Carbohydrates--Your Filler Food

1 cup alfalfa sprouts is 6 calories

You need to eat TEN apples, or 116 cups of alfalfa sprouts, to

Here's where Carbohydrates come in. They're your FILLER food,

In New York in the 1990's I ate a huge variety of cooked grains

* Breakfast - one large honeydew melon - 461 calories

Sweet Fruits (apple etc) - 92.5%

Flesh foods (animal, bird, fish) have zero carbohydrates.

* Next morning soak 2 tablespoons of quinoa for an hour, drain +

get to know the different times for

kelp are good. Seaweed gives more alkaline minerals to balance

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Replace SFS Factory Food with Whole Food *

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Substitute for Chips (crisps + french fries) *

half-gallon of vanilla choc chip in one day? Then bought another

Go through all seven pages, so you end up at:

Class 7--Nurturing You

A quick way is to ask a positive question. Don't make a positive

Today in my quiet suburb in a small town at the bottom of Africa,

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Food for Your Brain *

Class 8--Healing Schools

for YOUR unique needs...

Macrobiotics recognizes two forces in the universe -- expansion,

cooked carbohydrates like starchy vegetables and grains. They

Only when fractionated factory foods come into your world,

Figure out, what am I craving in the junk food? Is it the sugar

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - That's it folks! Congratulations on completing your 8-week

Class 9--Serving the Light