We are the world...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XPCOGSnjP5w
(Dr. Weston Prices Video)

Remember that song from the 80's and how inspirational it was? I remember that. Those were the days! You had Bono there, Sting etc, all singin about how the kids are our future. Which is true. But the other month I ran across this video that remains in my subconscious because of A) how powerful it is and B) what its implications are. The video talks about Weston Price and his studies on teeth. And how our diet affects the type of offspring we have. Our diet affects literally how our bones are formed and how are teeth are formed. It's really quite amazing. The implication is that if somebody has a susceptibility to cavities (thin layers of dentin around the teeth) this can be genetic. Meaning that the mother can by her diet pass that on to her kids by the level of genes that she passes on at the time of conception. WOW. And this is passed on by how she feeds her kids.

So what this can mean is how we eat now is going to have an impact on how future generations turn out. Low minerals, high sugar has the possibility to produce kids that have weak immune systems, childhood diseases etc. So in essence each generation is or can become weaker and weaker. This is manifested in how close are teeth are together, our body types, bone density and more. Amazing.

So many times we get caught up in how are diets are affecting our own health. But we forget that we need to eat this way for a sustainable future for the planet as well as for our kids and family. Our diet and the foods we eat affect way more than just if we feel good or not. It's much broader than that.

Just think of the possibilities. Imagine a culture of people that not only raised their kids raw but actually took the time to do some cleansing and really cleaned themselves out and ate the best raw organic superfoods to prepare for a pregnancy? Imagine what types of kids and future generations that would produce. Think about it. Now that sheds a little more light on focusing so much on ourselves. We can eat to create a more powerful generation that comes after us.

Milk It Does A Body Good?

Here is my milk. Looks just like milk doesn't it? I love putting things into containers that mimick the ones we are used to. I'm sure the platic leaches into my body. And I don't think Masaru Emoto would be proud. His work showed that the molecules in water can actually change by speaking to water, praying over it or even writing messages on the side of your glass. Now that is amazing! But I think it looks cool and one day I'll have it in glass or something. :) Maybe I'll put them in bottles like in Leave it to Beaver. But the above photo is just almond milk mixed with coconut water. Soooo good!




There is a great website called. http://www.notmilk.com/ and it's all about how HORRIBLE dairy products are for you. I love it and feel so much better for giving up all dairy. However I must admit I have a similar story to my hero David Wolfe on this. It was the milk that triggered my need to change my diet. It took years of trying to change and reading Fit for Life. But when I was having problems with milk I KNEW I needed to change something in my diet! So big ups to MILK! :) Hey sometimes it takes the worst things to show us we need change!

Inspirational Video...

I thought I would post this video as I really enjoyed it. It really has nothing whatsoever to do with raw food. But in a way it does. I'm a christian so something like this really resonates with me. Although I'm not a very "hard core" christian. But that's neither here nor there.

I think what we're all trying to do with raw foods is 2 things. On the more immediate front we are trying to accomplish some short term goals. They might be anything from losing weight, getting rid of food allergies, trying to overcome or prevent certain diseases, gain more clarity etc.

But then I think we lose sight of the bigger picture. Those are all fine and great but what we are trying to do in a much larger sense is to actually transform ourselves. As David Wolfe would say "become superheros" or to gain our "powers" back. Or in a religious sense to accoplish the will of God here with our lives on earth. We are changing our entire way of looking at the world. We are not our food. Sometimes we get obsessed with FOOD. We are eating this way so we can be healthy enough to fulfil why we are on this planet. Our mission.

Are we doing only what we love with our lives?

And in this way raw food marries very nicely with religion, sprirituality, consciousness etc. I think we all have a higher calling and after watching this video it reminded me that we are here for a much larger purpose and there are people who have much more to bear than we do. We complain if it takes us 20 minutes to make a smoothie!

So I think that we need a broader picture of what we are doing with our lives. We are not our fears, we are not our frustrations, we are not our desire to be raw foodists. It's much more than that. So all that to say I thought this video was really great and inspirational. I hope you like it!

Let me know your thoughts!

Some Good Raw Food Goals. Direction Determines Destination...

Here are some things I like to try to do everyday if I can. A lot of times I can't and that's okay. I don't beat myself up about it. Actually it's better to move in cycles. Eat what's in season, eat locally (except superfoods obviously) etc. It's good to eat in cycles because food is in a lot of ways a drug and you don't want your body getting too used to any stimulant. So it's good to switch it around every so often to keep your body guessing. It's like lifting weights. Ya gotta switch it up. I'm trying to get better at that actually. I like staples in my diet and I'm a creature of habit.

Once you create a new habit you are more likely to create another one. Your health must be earned it's not given to you. It's like waves crashing against a cliff, over time the waves can actually reshape rock! Over time you'll start doing more and more things each day and after 2,5, 10 years you're a completely different person than you were before. It's amazing!

So here are some basics I try to do:

• First thing when I get up (that's when you're most dehydrated) is to have a big glass of water (with sea salt, msm and lemon in it) with an enzyme. Some people like to have warm teas too and that is also really good.
  
• Have a green juice everyday if you can.
  
• If you eat cooked food have an enzyme with it.
  
• If you eat cooked meat, have some lemon on it, or some Cayenne Pepper suppliment with it. It helps is to digest. According to Donna Gates in The Body Ecology Diet, eat meat in the earlier part of the day if you can.
  
• Food combine as much as you can. Seperate carbs from proteins to allow your body to have more energy. They talk alot about this in Fit for Life
  
• Have at least 1 salad per day, 2 if you can. 1 with every meal if possible. This will help to at least make each meal more alkaline. Having a good acid/alkaline balance is key.
  
• Have a green smoothie everyday. I have mine for breakfast. Usually I have fruit in it (whatever is in season), with half an avocado (to make it more filling and slow the release of sugar), and any type and as much green leafy vegetables as possible. I also add in some lemon. This helps to remove the taste of bitter greens. Then for kicks I usually add some sort of frozen berries at the end, just because they are low in sugar, high in antioxidents and turn a green smoothie into a purple one. :) I also add in any superfood powders on hand.
  
• Have a chocolate superfood smoothie everyday if you can.
  
• Have a wheatgrass whenever possible.

That's pretty much the basics of what I try to do. But I'm finding that as time goes on, I don't require as much food and my addictions have diminished almost 100%. It's really great how that happens! So keep it up people! :)

- Justin

God's Healing

So this is a picture of my mom, my wife and I. My mom had non Hodgkin's lymphoma back in 1995. It was intense. She went thru the chemo and radiation treatment and she lost all her hair and spent months at The City of Hope. It tweaked her so incredibly bad. Then since then she's had lung cancer back in 2001 for which she had a whole lobe of her lung removed and they cracked her ribs open for surgery. I was traveling around the world at the time but I guess it took her 5 months to recover from that. Then a couple years ago she had a heart attack and they did surgery again and put a stint in her heart and all that.

So I felt I had to learn more about diet in order to get her on the healing path. She's super into raw foods and juices and all that. She's making the transition over to raw like I am. But now she needs to be more aggressive about it. :)

The past two years they've been monitoring spots on her lungs and they've been dormant. But recently it doubled in size and activity. So they think she has lung cancer again and want her to go into surgery.

Please if you can pray for her. I trust that God will do miraculous things in her life and get her thru this. I am a firm believer in prayer and healing thru prayer and belief in God.

Thanks everybody! :)

- Justin

Raw and Living Superfood Chocolate Shake...

This shake or smoothie is a staple of mine. I have one everyday! :) Sorry I didn't put any measurements down. I usually just do spoonfuls of each one. I'm horrible at measuring! I know bananas aren't the best for you but those along with the avocados really make it filling.

Sometimes I have it with a salad and that'll fill me up for hours. It's crazy. I also put in there any other superfoods I have on hand.

CHOCOLATE SHAKE
Cacao Powder
Cacao Butter
Hemp Seed Protein Powder
Frozen Banana 1
Agave Nectar
Almond Milk
Coconut Milk
Raw Honey
Mint Leaves
Coconut Meat
1/4 or up to an entire Avacado
Maca

Brian Clemente of the Hippocrates Health Institute...

This is a great lecture. This guy is amazing. I highly recommend taking the time to watch this video clip. He as many many good things to say. I think it would be very wise for all of us to really take to heart our mission on earth and finding out what that is so that we can find and live in a more joyous and fulfiling way. Here is his website. It was featured on the crazy sexy cancer dvd as well.

http://www.hippocratesinst.org/

If for some reason you can't view it click here

Raw Chocolate Fudge!

Put all ingredients into a bowl and mash together. If you want you can also form it into the size of snickers bars and freeze it in the freezer. Then you can have raw chocolate bars. Pretty sweet. This is one of my favorite things to make, it's so good for you and tastes amazing!

DRY INGREDIENTS
1 TBS Cacao Butter
Pinch of Sea Salt
1 Big Spoonful Cacao Nibs
1 Big Spoonful Cacao Powder
1 Small Spoonful Hemp Seed Powder
1 Small Spoonful Carob Powder
10-20 Raw Natures First Law Peanuts or any raw nuts
1 Small Spoonful Ground Flax Seeds
Small Handful of Goji Berries
1 Big Spoonful Dried Coconut Flakes

WET INGREDIENTS:
Cashew Butter (Spoonful)
Almond Butter (Spoonful)
Coconut Butter/Oil (Spoonful)
1TBS Agave
Spoonful Honey

Traveling with Raw Food...

Here is my wife and I hiking around Manly Australia
Drinking a carrot, apple celery juice in Harbord Sydney, Oz
Hanging out with My uncle and his wife...
Hanging out on Green Island Australia with my wife...

It's not easy traveling and trying to do raw food. But thanks to people getting the word out there it's getting easier and easier. More raw foods are becoming more and more available all over the world.

I hear it's also better to fly at night. The reason being is that the ultraviolet rays that hit the plane at that high an altitude is like a microwave oven as far as radiation goes. So less sun = less radiation. So I try to get night fights if I can but can't always. I learned that from Dr. Bob Marshall.

I also learned that there is something that I heard of called the Shuman Resonance Device. The theory is that the earth puts out a resonant frequency of 7 hertz or so. And when you are removed from the earth (in a plane at 35,000 feet) that resonant frequency doesn't penetrate your body and therefore you feel jetlag. Sounds interesting and I'm sure it's true but I don't have the device. Apparently it's something you wear like a necklace or something. If anybody has one please let me know and let me know if it's worth it to buy one! :)

Thanks!

- Justin

Motivation to continue eating raw and living foods...

(Lip Cancer from smoking)

So this year, my wife's grandma was diagnosed with terminal brain and lung cancer, my mom had her cancer come back in her lungs and my friend Kristy's dad had emergency surgery on his intestines because they had holes in them. I talk to so many people who say that it's not caused by our diet or "we just don't know why these things happened to people." But I have an idea. It might have to do with the years and years of poisoning our body's with dead denatured food and we wonder why our bodies don't work or react the way that they should. Now don't get me wrong I have incredible compassion for these great people I know. But I wish I could shake them and tell them what they're doing to their bodies I love them so much. I hate to see people in so much pain and they don't even know why.

Sometimes I am eating with people and secretly wish I could be eating the same things they are. But then when things like this happen a bell rings true in my head and I know I am doing the right things by eating this way. WE WILL PAY THE MONEY, EITHER FOR THE FOOD NOW OR TO THE DOCTORS LATER. But we will pay. I am so fortunate to have found the raw food path. Keep chargin people!