Strategies how to go 100% raw

Today I had a very interesting chat with a professional Life Coach. Maybe you know Anthony Robbins, the most successful life coach in the world. He and he´s team are offering free coaching sessions on their website http://www.tonyrobbins.com/coaching/coaching-session-signup.php, so I thought I will give it a try and see what happens.

I signed up in curiosity, but also to get some insight and knowledge about what is holding me back going 100% raw. What are the wrong thinking patterns, what keeps me going back to cooked food. Why some people can go overnight and stay raw, but some fail numerous times?

My biggest problem is: every time i have gone raw i feel great first few weeks or a month, the longest, but as soon as things get hard (for example i start craving cooked food and i have possibility to cheat), i just give up. If something suddenly changes, like i dont have enough fruit in the house or i get stressed, I start making excuses why i cant do it 100%.

My consultant name was Craig Bradshaw. He was very understanding, BUT he told me straight everything i needed to know.

The 3 principles for making the change, are:
1. Intellectual - I have to know what i want. What it is exactly. What is my final goal, where i want to be.
2. Emotional - have strong emotional attachment with my goal. It has to go from my head to my heart.
3. Identity - what qualities i have to have, in order to succeed.

In my case:
1. I already know what I want - to be 100% raw for the rest of my life :)
2. I have to make a very strong reasons of why i need to stay raw and not give up when things get hard. In that case I have to make a "Pain and Pleasure" list. You list all the things you will have and the benefits you will gain if you stay raw - this is the Pleasure list. And then you list all the things you will loose or how negatively it will impact you if you go off raw - this is your Pain list.
3. In order to go past these inconvenient moments, when being raw gets hard, I need to:

1) be committed. Not make any excuses.
2) to focus on what i want, not what i fear. To focus on the BENEFITS and what i will GAIN, if i stay raw, not focus on what i will loose when i stay raw.
3) be strong. Stay put in my beliefs.

These three are the qualities i came up with when he asked me what do i think which qualities i need to have to be that person, who i wanna be.

7 Steps to achieving your goals
1. Have clear and specific goals
2. Have written massive action plan containing exactly what needs to happen to reach your goals
3. Get leverage: why is this goal a MUST and what specifically are the consequences if you dont reach your goal.
4. Create the identity of the person you need to become in order to get what you want. Confident, consistent, focused, etc.
5. Take ACTION that is consistent with your identity.
6. Create the environment that supports you. Surround yourself with people, the places and the things that support you.
7. Celebrate!!!

Key questions:
1. What do i have to believe in order to stay 100% raw?
2. What is the cost if i dont? How will that make you feel? Who will it hurt?
3. Why is this a MUST? How will that make you feel? Who will it help?
4. Who do i have to become in order to stay 100% raw?
5. Is this action getting me closer to where i want to be or further away?

He said that i have to start building my "emotional muscle". So next time i wanna quit, i have a strong enough emotional muscle to not do it. How can i build it? Simply by repetitive actions. If i repeat staying raw, when i actually wanna quit, it will help me to get stronger and stronger. And when i dont follow my urge to eat cooked food, the craving will get weaker and weaker.

He said that it takes about 30 days to build a habit, but only 1 day to break it. So build a strong habit by repeating.

But when is the best time to build my "emotional muscle"? Not when everything is easy enough to do so or when i have good conditions or enough fruit available. But its easiest when i have greatest resistant. Like when you gonna build more muscle - if you swim along the waves or against the waves? Swimming against the waves builds more and stronger muscle. So dont wait "until the time is right".

So make a plan. My plan is:
1. For 3 months - eat raw for breakfast and lunch, and low fat cooked for dinner (january - march)
2. After that eat another three months cooked dinner every other day (april - june)
3. Then eat cooked dinner 2 times a week (july - september)
4. Then to eat cooked food once a week (october - december)
5. After that go 100% raw.

So its a long plan, but i am gradually making the changes.

Also, do not criticize yourself if you go wrong. Just get up right away and keep trying - do not give up, ever!

I know, i am not the right person to tell you how to be 100% raw, because im not there yet myself :) But i just thought you would benefit from my consultation with a life coach - i know he had some strong strategies.

Key Words and Terms Explained

Summary from the book...
"Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods"
by T. C. Fry & David Klein


ACID-FORMING: For our purposes, foods which, when metabolized, form acidic end-products. Acids must be neutralized because the body must maintain an alkaline disposition of blood and fluids. Phosphorus, chlorine, sulfur and silicon are the most prevalent acid-forming elements.

AESTHETIC: Relating to beauty or that which is consonant with human well-being. As we use it we mean our sense of beauty. That which is promotive of human well-being is usually beautiful, and that which is contrary to human well-being is usually ugly and repulsive.

ALKALINE-FORMING: Foods which, when metabolized, form bases or alkalis in the body. Alkalis are base elements that predominate in the body. We require an alkaline disposition of blood and fluids. Calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron are the most significant alkaline elements.

ALKALOSIS:  A Body condition wherein acidic minerals are not sufficient to maintain the normal homeostatic pH. A normal bodily pH is in the range of 7.35 to 7.45 (slightly alkaline). When the body becomes overly alkaline, usually due to an overload of inorganic alkalis which the body handles poorly, it experiences distress, some of it being akin to heartburn.

ASSIMILATION: The incorporation of nutrients into body substance or into substances the body needs in in its process and functions.

CARNIVORE: An eater of animals or carnage. Be it noted that carnivores not only eat the flesh of animals but blood, bone, gristle and offal as well. Eating flesh only is very unbalanced diet.

CONSONANT: Meaning "in accord with", or "in harmony with". As we use it, the terms mean in agreement with.

ENDOGENOUS:  Meaning internally originating or generated.

ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS: These are the fatty acids occurring within oils and foods which are deemed necessary in the human diet because of human inability to synthesize them. They include linoleic acid, linolenic acid, and arachidonic acid. Evidence has surfaced that now says there may be only one essential fatty acid inasmuch as the body does seem to have the ability to synthesize arachidonic and linolenic acid. Simple fatty acids of all kinds are called monoglycerides.

EXOGENOUS: Something originating outside the organism. For our purposes too, the intestinal tract is outside the organism, being a tube that traverses the body from mouth to anus. Nevertheless, we regard this as internal. Because of this "exogenous" nature of an internal organ (the intestinal tract) this may lead to confusion at times.

FACULTIES: as we use it this means all the resources and equipment an organism possesses for its life activities and processes.

FAMINE: A paucity or shortage of needs or even their total absence. More particularly this applies to occasions of food scarcity or absence.

FRUGIVORE: Animals or humans who live on fruits. For our purposes anyone who lives predominantly or mostly on fruits. There are total fruitarians but they comprise only a fraction of the fruitarians.

FRUIT: That part of a seed package developed and grown specifically by a plant (stalk, vine or tree) to inuce consumption with the incidental benefit of the spreading of its seed. Fruit is the only form of plant life grown specifically as food.

GRAMINIVORE: Creatures that subsist on grains and/or cereals. Mostly these are birds. Technically, any creatures that live on grasses and their seeds are graminivorous. But these are generally referred to as herbivores if they consume grasses or other herbage.

HERBIVORE: Eaters of plants which, practically, means mostly grasses. though there are leaf eaters (e.g., giraffes), wood eaters and weed eaters.

INSECTIVORE: A mammalian eater of insects as primary source of sustenance. These are moles, armadillos, etc.

METABOLIC: Relating to body processes that change substances. There are tearing-down processes called catabolic and building-up processes called anabolic.

MINERAL SALTS: Mineral salts are formed by an organic combination of mineral with acid to form a stable compound.  This compound can then be metabolized and utilized by the body.

PALATE: Pertaining to the senses of taste. A food is said to be palatable if it appeals to our tastes.

PATHOGENIC: A combination of the Greek words patho- which means disease or suffering and gen which means to produce. Hence pathogenic means that which produces disease.

PERVERTED: Deviant from normal; unnatural, abnormal; wrong action; incorrect.

PHYSIOLOGICAL: Pertaining to the internal processes, functions and activities that attend living organisms. physiology as sush also involves a study of the components and faculties of organisms in connection with processes, functions and activities they´re involved in.

PRISTINE: Belonging to a beginning period. An original condition.

PROTEIN: Nitrogenous compounds as organized into amino acids which act as an alphabet from which the body creates over 100,000 words (proteins). These combinations serve as building materials, enzyme catalysts of metabolic activities, and factor in organisms, plant or animal. Every living cell of every living thing is endowed with proteins that have been specially synthesized to meet its special needs. All organisms reject, destroy and expel proteins not of its own synthesis.

RATIONALE: The setting forth of controlling principles or the principles that appertain to a situation. An explanation of why for, what for, how for, etc.

RESERVE: That which is stored in anticipation of future need.

SALIENT: That which is foremost, conspicuous or standing out as we use it.

STARVATION: As we use it, a stage when all fat reserves have been exhausted and the body begins consumption of muscular or proteinaceous tissues for the energies necessary to conduct brain, heart and other vital activities.

SYMBIOSIS: Dissimilar organisms that cooperate for the benefit of the body. the cooperation is usually instinctual. A good example is the services rendered flowers by bees and insects in incidentally effecting fertilization while sustaining themselves upon nectar created by the plant to attract their consumption.

SYMBIONT: A participant in symbiotic activities.

SYMBIOTIC: Meaning organisms and/or plants that cooperate with each other of perform services for each other for mutual benefit.

TANTALIZE: That which entices, enthralls or attracts. this means something that entrances us but is out of reach or unavailable. We use this term as that which arouses desire such that we´re attracted to it.

TOXIC: Poisonous; anti-vital; relating to a substance interferes with, impedes, impairs or destroys vital functions and processes due to chemical unions that derange stable processes; that which disturbs homeostasis; that which clogs, blocks or modifies body processes, and that which injures due to its presence or its modifications of the norm.

VEGETARIAN: The word derives from vegetus meaning lively, exciting or animated. The word is popularly used to mean an eater of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds and non-animal fare generally. It does not mean, as commonly supposed, an eater of only vegetable fare. On the other hand, we must respect common understanding and usage by regarding the term vegetarian as meaning only a consumer of plant foods.

VITAMIN: Means "vital amine", or coenzyme necessary to metabolic processes. Most vitamins are composed of various amino acid combinations or proteins. Vitamins are under the control of the body in both their composition and employment.

How to Determine Your Natural Dietetic Character

Summary from the book:

You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by T. C. Fry & David Klein

Part 6: How to Determine Your Dietetic Character


1. Humans developed in nature and we are equipped to easily discover, acquire, appropriate, digest, absorb and utilize foods to which we are biologically adapted.
2. All acts that humans must do to thrive healthily are pleasurable and joyful. All that result pain, sickness and discomfort are unhealthy.
3. Our natural foods have no poisons or lead to our poisoning, except under very abnormal conditions.
4. Foods not sutable for human consumption cause suffering, sickness and disease.
5. Animals and humans in nature who cannot eat their natural food suffer starvation, except humans can pervert themselves dietarily to survive, but they suffer diseases as a result.

Some outstanding facts for your consideration


1. Humans like other species have specific faculties for finding, taking, consuming, processing and utilizing foods which they are adapted to.
2. Despite of our current mixed diet, our natural dietary nature have not changed
3. Our natural food will give us nourish we need
4. We can produce our natural foods to meet our dietary needs to attain our highest potential
5. Symbiosis and cooperation exists in nature to an extent we do not realize.

Exogenous and aesthetic requirements of our natural foods


This concerns the properties foods must have to meet the human biological disposition. Our natural foods self-evidently existed in nature sufficiently to supply the needs of the populace at the time. They had to be available in plenitude, otherwise adaptations would not have occurred that we can easily determine.

Aesthetic needs of our natural foods


These foods must have been eaten by humans sufficiently long period so than we developed all the requirements to digest, utilize and absorb it, as well as find and gather it.
Therefore our natural foods must have aroused our senses and attention - it had to be beautiful to the eye.
1. Natural food must appeal to the eye.
2. It must excite our sense of smell. In its natural state of course.
3. A natural food must be easily apprehend and acquire with our natural faculties (feet, hands, nails and so on)


Our natural food must be easily consumed in their natural state as modified by our natural faculties only.
Not all natural foods are easy to process for humans. Some need some proccessing before we can assimilate and digest them - therefore they are not natural for humans to consume. Humans are most fastidious when it comes to their food compared to other species.

Our natural foods must be a gustatory delight in their natural state
Humans lived long before they mastered tools and fire, therefore we should consume foods in their natural state. It must excite our palate and be delightful in their natural state.

Endogenous requirements of our natural foods
Our natural foods are the raw materials our body use for its function. It must be nutritious and contain no pison to our body.

Our natural foods will not intoxicate or poison us!
"Thou shalt not poison thyself." If a food has components or compounds for which we secrete no digestive enzymes, that component is toxic to our body. Our natural foods require almost no enzyme secretion.

Our natural foods must be easily and efficiently digested and utilized
Animals are equipped to easily handle their natural foods, so are humans. If something needs preparation, then its not our natural food. The less efficiently the food is digested, the worse it is for you. More strain, more drain. Less strain, more gain.

Our natural foods must have nutrient adequacy that proportionately supplies our various needs
Our natural foods amply suppliy our nutrient needs.

Our natural foods must adequately supply our caloric needs.
The RDA for our caloric needs is about 50% too high! Our natural foods have more usable calories that cooked foods. As fiber is a neutral factor, being virtually unused in its passage through the intestina tract, we need not consider it as nutrient even though its caloric values are included in conventional figures because it is a firebox calorie. Our foremost fuel is glucose and fructose. The body can use these as is.. If we eat starches, we must heat them to break them down into glucose. Our starch-eating abilities are very low, which indicates that it is not our natural food. As glucose and fructose are our natural sugar, we will experience about 95% energy gain if we get these directly from our foods. But equal amount of starches will result about 40% of its potential. Humans have no enzymes to completely break town starches - all breakdown is through crushing and chewing.

Our natural foods must adequately supply our amino acid needs
So we actually  need amino acids, not proteins. If we eat proteins, they must be laboriously digested, to break down to amino acids. Our actual needs for amino acids are about 21 g per day, or 84 cal. But when  you throw some extra bricks to your building, it may jam things up. In our natural diet amino acids are almost 100% usable. But in the conventional diet they are only 20% usable. Cooking deranges and even destroys proteins and amino acids, so they become unusable except as carbs.

Our natural foods must supply our needs for mineral matter
Mineral matter that body can use consists of organic, living substances. Heat quickly destroys the organic context, so it will return to inorganic state. So it will become the same as it occur in soil, rocks etc. Minerals which the body requires become toxic if they are inorganic. According to the RDA, the body must have about 1% of its solid food intake as minerals. To be usable these minerals must be in an un-deranged organic state.

Our natural foods must supply our needs for fatty acids
There was, at one time, said that there are three essential fatty acids: arachidonic, linoleic and linolenic. But today only linoleic is said to be essential. Popularly, linolenic fatty acids are named as omega-3 and linoleic fatty acids are omega-6. Essential means that it needs it, because body cannot synthesize them itself. Our body never developed the ability to synthesize it, because they they were so plentiful in foods, the same as with vitamin C.

Our natural foods must supply our needs for vitamins
Eventhough our needs for vitamins are a very small amount, they are essential to our well-being. Our natural foods supply all the amounts of vitamins we need.

Our natural foods must supply our needs for miscellaneous nutrients
In any event you can be sure, that our natural diet will supply us with necessary nutrients we need in quantities we require. After all, our virtual abandonment of our natural dietary fare is only a few seconds on the clock if we regard our earthly existence as being 24 hours thus far. And our natural fare is scientifically established as responsible for our high state of development.

Our natural foods should supply our water needs
Healthy people eating their natural diet usually have enough water in their body without drinking. While thirst generally arises from pathigenic conditions within, there are exceptions: extraordinarily warm climatic conditions, extraordinarily low humidity, periods without normal food intake, eating good foods that have been tried, heavy labour or ewercise under warm conditions, and yet other conditions. When thirst arises, always drink pure water.

Our diet must be alkaline, overall, in metabolic end products
This means no more at least 80% of alkaline-forming foods against not more than 20% of acid end-product foods. Humans healthy pH is 7.40. Any significant variation in the pH result in coma and death. Acidosis is deadlier that alkalosis.  The body can easily discharge excess organic alkalis, but must neutralize excess acids. In the absence of sufficient alkalis, our body must take alkaline matter from our bones, especially calcium to help with neutralization. Americans eat predominately acid-forming diet., it will result in osteoporosis and metabolic disorders.

How An Unnatural Diet Causes Diseases

Summary from the book:


You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein  


Part 4: How An Unnatural Diet Causes Diseases.



If you camouflage your food with condiments or cooking you are doing the following:
1. Destroying nutrients in the food
2. Deranging your tastebuds and adapt them to cooked food. You will have eliminative problems, hence sickness will result.
3. Causing nutrient deficiencies
4. Protein malnutrition by cooking what distroys proteins and amino acids. So you will have nutrient-bereft food only with empty calories. Once oxidized proteins are soil (food) for bacteria which will putrefy (rot) it. Bacterial putrefactive by-products are very toxic and carcinogenic.
5. Laying the groundwork for putrefactive bacterial flora that will vitiate your intestinal tract. Cooked food and wrong food eaters have about 2 pounds (1kg) of bacterial flora in their digestive tract. Raw foodists have only few ounces (50 g).
6. Alcohol and vinegar poisoning. Heated sugars and alcohol are readily fermented by fungy and bacteria. Thats the process of vinegar and alcohol. Vinegar is dozen times more toxic than alcohol.
7. If you consume foods with no nutrients and with toxins you put your body into pathological state. Condiments are timulants: salt, soy-sauce, cheese


Commonly eaten toxic substances: 
1. Ordinary commercially prepared orange juice is a carcinogen. Toxic compounds from skin is now in the juice. Same for lemon and grapefruit.
2. Ordinary mushrooms are carcinogenic.
3. Tofu is highly refined soy bean, contains several carcinogens - indole, nitropyrene.
4. Alfalfa sprouts contain carcinogen, canavanine.
5. All cooked and heated oils and fats as in fried foods, nuts, seeds, meats, etc contain deadly carcinogen. Their aerated fumes are worse in the lungs than tobacco smoke!


All diseases, illnessess are abnormal, unnaturral and unnecessary.


Is cooked food good for us?


In nature all animals eat only foods what nature gave them. Only humans cook their foods and suffer diseases. Long before dry ashes result, food values are totally destroyed. For example, put your hand in boiling water.


Cooking renders food toxic


- White blood cells are there to defend us and are called "the immune system". Afer eating cooked food meal our white blood cells double and triple.
- All cooking quickly generates mutagens (1) and carcinogens in foods.
- Proteins loose their nutritive value.
- Vitamins are rather quickly destroyed by cooking.
- Minerals lose their organic context and are returned to their native state as they occur in soil, sea water, rocks, metals. In such a state they are unusable and body leaves them aside where they may combine with saturated fats and cholesterol clogging up the circulatory system (with cement-like prague).
- Heated fats are especially damaging because they are altered to form acroleins, radicals and other mutagens and carcinogens.
- Dead foods make dead people!


How osteoporosis is caused


Osteoporosis is bone porosity that present structural appearence like Swiss cheese under the microscope.
Bones are composed primarly of alkaline minerals like calcium. The body maintains homeostatic condition (2) whereby blood, tissues and fluids are virtually all of an alkaline pH of 4.70.
If pH changes significantly, we go into coma and my die.
Both alkalosis and acidosis can be deadly.
Body can easily deal with excess alkalis from organic sources, but has great difficult with inorganic alkalis like iron, calcium, potassium, sodium and magnesium - from rocks, ores, soil, metal spring, well waters and cooked foods, especially sea water and cooked foods.
Body maintains hemostatic pH of 7.40. When we eat foods that are acidic in their metabolic end-products, the body neutralizes them with alkalis from its reserves. If we eat meal after meal that consists of mostly acid-forming substances after metabolism, the body exhausts its alkaline reserves and must rob its bones of their alkaline minerals, primarily calcium, in order to neutralize the acid end products.


How colds are caused


When body experiences "cold", then it directs its energy to eliminate toxins and other morbid matters through respiratory tract and sinuses, mostly as mucous. When the body´s cup runneth over, it enters into the G-O phase of the GIGO (3) syndrome.


How asthma is caused


It is almost same as colds but body eliminates toxins through bronchi and causing their swelling and inflammation.


How most diseases are caused


Most illnesses and ailments are bodys try to clean inself from toxins. All illnesses reduce bodys vitality because most energy is in eliminating morbid matter.


How indigestion, acid stomach and gas emissions are caused


There are multiple causes of stomach problems, but the foremost causes are:
1. Bad food combining. Undigested foods do not provide nourishment and it wastes our energy. Instead they are fermented, putrefied and made rancid in our intestinal flora- and these are the cause or foul gasses, heartburn, stomach problems and make toxic by-products than give us headache.
2. Eating foods not suitable for humans
3. Eating foods with different digestive times. Like eating fruits after regular meals.
4. Eating acid-forming foods
5. Overeating
6. Eating when digestive ability is low - stress, feeling poorly, needing sleep, feeling nervous...
7. Eating foods with condiments, preservatives, irritants, heated oils; vinegar is very bad for digestion
8. Eating cooked foods. For example cooked cabbage takes twice as long as raw cabbage in the stomach.

End Notes:

(1) Mutagen - physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material or DNA. As many mutagens cause cancer, they are called carcinogenic.

(2) Homeostatic condition - the ability or tendency of an organism or cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes.

(3) GIGO is computer term that is short for "garbage in, garbage out".

How Our Natural Diet Leads to Wellness

Summary from the book:


You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein  

Part 4: How Our Natural Diet Leads to Wellness


We suffer no deficiencies if we eat mostly fruit, vegetable salads every day, some nuts and seeds and less than a teaspoon of sea vegetation (dulse flakes for example).

Raw food diet is"clean-burning" - have no toxins or by-products after digestion - no disease-causing factors.
Some vegetables (lettuce, gabbage) have a little toxic compounds, but enouh rest and sleep is sufficient to cope with that.

Book "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer" (1982) by Nutritional Research Council - Chapter 13 lists so many pathogenic effects of cooked foods you´ll swear off cooked foods forever out of respect to the temple of your being, your magnificent body.

Yes, a raw diet enables you to overcome diseases!

If you eat raw foods your body can start healing and cleansing of toxins. At the beginning there can be some discomforts especially from emptying the fat cells what are often under the load of toxins and morbid matters. Sicness and diseases ceases because their underlying problems are removed. The body will heal if not burden with more toxins.
Alzheimer´s (memoryloss) is normally not curable. Its irreversible organic damage, significant brain cell loss.

Detoxification


If you start to eat raw foods, being ill or not, body will start detoxing to establish higher state of wellness. Eating so much nutrients will cause body spring into action, purging itself from debris and repairing itself. It is recommended that the transition is made gradually, to avoid uncomfortable symptoms. Results are noticable usually in the first 24 hours. Body cleanses the most early to late morning hours.  So in the morning we should eat lightly (or it might keep us overweight).

Detox entails: 


1. Cells off-load metabolic wastes and environmental toxins into the bloodsteam by filtering kidneys and liver
2. Elimination organs (skin, bowels, kidneys, lungs, vagina) release metabolic and environmental wastes via feces, urine, breath, sweat and menses. Also expectorated in mucus via sinuses and throat.

Under normal conditions body can eliminate toxins via these eliminative organs, but under exessive bombardment of toxins the buildup of toxins increases and body cannot completely eliminate them.
This condition is called toxicosis - leads to accelerated aging, fatigue, illness, obesity. You likely have toxicosis if you have lived long period on dairy, meat, bread, junk foods. The body harbors sticky and insoluble debris on artery and bowel walls, also in tissues and organs.

Our body is very cleaver and when theres too much toxins it tries to cleanse itself by burging, detoxification, elimination by manifesting these symptoms: sore throat, mucus in sinuses, fever, skin outbreaks, coated tongue, vomiting, diarrhea. Maladorous body wastes and underarms are signs of toxins. We can have headache because of the toxins thrown to the bloodsteam for elimination. Through detox unhealthy fat, cysts and even tumors are broken down and eliminated. Through all that people can experience some emotiomal detox and mood-swings.

When organs of eliminations are weak, body will find other ways: eyes, ears, vagina, sinuses, scalp. Then we can also feel fatigued as energy goes to eliminating so we need extra sleep and rest.

At the same time with elimination and detox body also repairs and restore damaged cells and organs. If the toxemia is severe this phase can last weeks or months. However this is the quickest possible healing process.

Some of the rewards: freedom of illnesses, sweet smelling breath, no body odors, good elimination, shiniet and thicker hair, clearer eyes and skin, more mental clarity, strong nails, better memory, joy of life, slimmer belly, no cellulite, greater stamina, deeper spirituality, connection with nature and so on.

Your Gift

by David Klein

You have a magnificent self-healing body -

you have it all.

Your body knows how to heal itself -

it is trying to do so now.

Give your body the roper care it needs - 

allow your body to completely heal itself, and it will.

Durian and house sitting

Currently we are doing "house sitting" for three weeks. The owners of the house went travelling and we are looking after the house, their two dogs and four chickens :) If you want to know more about house sitting, that its very cheap way to travel for example, you can look it from here: http://www.housecarers.com/ And you can do it all over the world.

Its very beautiful house with a little vegetable-fruit-herb garden. We have dragonfruit, grapefruit, pineapple, pumpkin, taro, basilic, cilantro and some greens.

We are not working for these three weeks so I have lots of free time to experiment with recipes. I have made some low fat cooked recipes and some of them you can see under the tab "Low fat transition recipes". Also I´m studying my Health Practitioner course and that´s why you have seen me adding here summaries about that. It´s much more fun sharing it in my blog, rather than just writing it and leaving it in my computer :)

I really really wanna loose weight, so I started with some exercising. Back in Estonia I had these Cindy Crawford workout tapes I could watch on TV. I really missed them. So i got her DVDs. I am so glad I did it. If i do it with a tape, I feel like I am exercising with somebody and it gives so much more motivation to push hard and to go all the way. And of course she has a perfect body, so exercising with her I keep in mind that "I wanna have a body like that!" :D

These are some guidelines I follow to loose weight:
1. Eat fruit for breakfast and lunch (as much as I want)
2. Eat low fat vegan cooked for dinner (also, as much as I want)
3. Drink much water, at least 3 liters a day. Its very hot here, so its not a problem
4. Eat last meal before 6 pm.
5. Exercise 3-5 times a week.
6. Get enough sleep and sunshine
7. Be stress free and happy :)

After just two days of exercising following Cindy´s tape I already feel better. I haven´t loose any weight, i think, but its something to do with being more in tune with my body. Exercising gives me more confident or something :) I feel much better.

And also I downloaded from internet one interval training audio. Interval training is a type of training where you do vigorous exercise with rest in between. Like 2 minutes giving all you got and then resting 20 sec (something like that). AND this kind of training supposedly burns more fat. And with audio its much easier, because you dont have to watch the clock all the time. You just use your mp3 player and guy in your ears tells you when to run very fast, and when to jog, if you take it to running with you. So im gonna try it.


Today we went to the markets, to get more fruit, since our bananas are still in ripening process. And guess what?! There was DURIAN! I had tried it already once before, in December, but it was too ripe, so I didin´t got the right taste. It was ok, but weird. So now I had the chance to try it again. Ant it was...i dunno if i should write WEIRD or AMAZING...i think it was WEIRDLY AMAZING :D It was really good. I think I have a new favorite fruit!

We saw some sellers and many of them know us, as we lived in Port Douglas for four months and bought fruit from them every weekend, usually more than anybody. So we had a nice chat with them as well and got some free tasting ;)











Fruit at the market.

Our fruit stack :)

What is Nutrition?

Summary from the book:


You may have tried every diet except...

Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein 


Part 3: What is Nutrition?



The science of nutrition embraces all that contributes to the nurture of organisms. Nutrition is concerned with what nourishes the human body. Also this science is about utilizing, assimilating, absorbing, digesting nutrients.


What do our body need?


1. About 90% of our body nutrient needs, beside water, are for caloric needs for food that body uses for energy and heat needs. All caloric values are used as sugars (if not fat is used): fructore and glucose. Body breaks down fat for energy only when sugars are not available.


2. 4-5% of our body needs (aside from water) are for amino acids (high protein foods). Our body does not need proteins, it actually needs amino acids. When we consume proteins our body has to overwork to absorb the resulting amino acids. In our natural foods, proteins come to us predigested as amino acids!


Our bodyes can use ONLY amono acids or proteins that have not been heated - amino acids start to be distroyed 118 (about 48 degrees Celsius) degrees Fahrenheit and are virtually all destroyed at 160 degrees (71 Celsius), the temperature of pasteurization (harmful bacteria killing - slightly above boiling temperature so the flavour preserves). At 160 degrees almost all proteins are disorganized and amino acids deaminated (means: to remove one or more amino groups from molecule).


3. 3% of our bodys nutrient needs, aside from water, are for mineral matter what we have to consume with raw plant foods. It has to be organic and organized mineral matter. Inorganic mineral matter - supplements, food additives, metals, rocks, soil, sea water and cooked food are poisonous. All inorganic minerals are toxic (sodium, iron, magnesium, chlorine, potassium, calcium and about 40 more.


Heating foods causes minerals to be deranged, cooking makes minerals unavailable for body use - they become doxic debris.


4. 1-2% aside from water, are for essential fatty acids. Body can synthesize all fatty acids, except linoleic (omega-3), because it is abundantly in our natural foods.


5. 1% our bodys need is for vitamins. The need is small, but they are vital for human health and nutrition. Heat destroys and derenges vitamins rather low temperatures. So most cooked foods are worthless and also gives us toxines.


6. Also many kinds of nutrients called hormones and auxones. But it is most important to learn to consume foods that we are naturally adapted to, not to learn about different nutritional compounds separately because they work together.


"Its better to be ignorant rather to have learned so much that isnt so!"


The science of correct feeding
That what works is scientific and that what does not work in unscientific. Unnatural diet is unscientific because it fails to meet the requirements of humans.
The Bible calls for only fruits as our diet per Genesis, 1:29:30.


(From Google - Nutrition is the sum total of the processes involved in the taking in and the utilization of food substances by which growth, repair and maintenance of the body are accomplished).

What is Diet?

Summary from the book:


You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein


Part 2: What is Diet?



Everything what body uses outside for nutritive purposes should be included as a part of the diet (food, sunshine, water, oxygen..). Foods are raw materials of life, but there are other vital needs for life, too.


What do our dietary authorities teach?


- That our diet plays no role in disease and that dietay indiscretions are primary cause of our suffering.
- They look for hobgoblins for the cause - germs, viruses and bad genes and to fight them with poisonous drugs and deadly, expencive therapies.
- They trust commercial TV, press etc. for information but they are simply fooled.
- Drug addiction among medical professionals is 44% higher than general populance!
- Medical personnel are praised in TV and other media because its all controlled by drugsellers-owners.
- They get people sick but get all the praise.


Dietitians as providers of customers to the medical industry!


Nutritional professionals teach the basic Five Food Groups and nutriently adequate program to follow.
Many our natural foods are nutritionally adequate within themselves (bananas).
"Thou shalt not poison thyself" 
Five Food Groups are responsible for more than 95% of our country´s (America) ills.


The basic five food groups consist of the following:


1. Milk and dairy products - All are pathogenic, they would never be consumed in a state of nature. Only human milk is for humans.
2. "Protein" group - red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, legumes (peas, peanuts, beans) nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds can be eaten raw but only with vegetables because otherwise they are too acid-forming. Some peas and beans can be eaten raw, too. In nature we would consume very little nuts and seeds. All others are abonimations in the human diet.
3. The grain group - Rice, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, millet is unfit for human consumption except sweet corn what technically is fruit. Else is disease-causing no matter how prepared.
4. Fruits and vegetables - Commonly called as vegatables but actually fruits are tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, squash and peppers. Everything what ripens when its seeds are viable are fruits! Generally called vegetables are also cultivated grasses and weeds like lettuce, cabbage family members, kale, collards, spinach, chards, broccoly, cauliflower. Some are beneficial but some have toxic substances. Fruits are our best foods.
5. "Accessory foods" - salt, sugar, pepper, condiments, spices, candies, syrups, honey, wines, beers, jellys, jams, vinegar, oil. Nutritionists are miseducated puppets in the matter.  Its not cientific and is responsible of proliferation of disease.
Food and drug companies endow and control the advertising and are directly responsible in all this.
They want us to not think and question and be mediocre like "Roman slaves".
These food groups have nothing to do with nutrition! they are simply representing the marketplace division. 
Rich companies control food industry, covernment and educational industries. Thats why no nutrition classes in medical schools!
Most of us have never heart of natural foods for humans. These Five Food Groups are told us as being "science". Pathogenic fare is praised as if it were manna from heaven.

Some of the Enormous Benefits You Can Expect From Your Natural Diet and Healthful Practices

Summary from the book:


You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein


Part 1: Some of the Enormous Benefits You Can Expect From Your Natural Diet and Healthful Practices



Based Soundly and scientifically upon our natural biological disposition - upon our natural physical, mental, emotional, sensory and spiritual needs - you can expect sensational improvements when you eat a raw diet and practice the totally effective health system of which it is a part. The health system of which the natural raw food diet is a part is the basis for vibrant, sickness-free well-being! By following this natural system you almost surely will:


1. Overcome, once and for all time, occasional illnesses and annoying ailments. Whether it be indigestion, colds, flu bouts, mucus expectoration, headaches, backaches, fevers or even such "incurable" as acne, allergy, arthritis, asthma, constipation, heart and cardiovascular problems, herpes, psoriasis, skin problems, sinusitis, tinnitus, tumors and so on.
2. Because you will avoid the main causes of sickness and disease, you need not suffer even so much as another case of indigestion, aches, pains, fever, sore throat, cough, cold or anything else!
3. Normalize your weight if it is excessive. Without dieting or counting calories, the Natural Hygiene or Healthful Living regimen born of properly meeting our needs causes the overweight to quickly, naturally, safely, surely and permanently lose down to a naturally normal weight set-point.
4. Eliminate physicians, hospitals, drugs from your and your family´s life. You will also save your money because of that and most important it saves you from aches, pains, discomfort and suffering.
5. Energize yourself! You will get more done than ever before
6. You become more lovable and charming as you become more happier and radiant and more focused. 
7. Increase your brainpower and mental alertness. Your IQ and wisdom increase significantly.
8. Have new-found strength, stamina, vigor and vitality.
9. Enjoy clearer complexion with a glowing and radiant and radiant skin tone.
10. Speak with an improved voice, that sounds so clear.
11. Restore your youth! You´ll look, act and feel up to  20 years younger within one to four months.
12. Eliminate most digestive problems within 24 hours after going on this marvelous diet.
13. Improve your productivity and job performance, thus increasing your income appreciably.
14. Feel like a million! You have a bouyancy and bounce that even younger people do not have!
15. Decrease your sleep needs by about an hour daily even though you´ll be better slept, more alert and better rested.
16. You´ll be sharper, more precise and correct in your judgments, thus enabling you to more accurately and quickly perform both physical and mental tasks.
17. When you start doing what you should always have been doing, you´ll start being what you always should have been.


The enormity of the task of persuasion


The most difficult of tasks is to present the truth to those programmed in misconceptions and errors so as to win its acceptance. Especially when it seems too good to be true!
How to present to you the truths about diet, health and well-being as as not to offend your sensibilities at their present level nor risk your dismissal as ridiculous in comparison with currently accepted and perpetuated errors - errors that have made American one of 260 million people who spend more on "disease care" than the next two billion highest spenders altogether! Despite this, our over one trillion dollar annual "health care" bill continues rise at about 16% per year, self-evidence that our health is getting worse.
Despite by presenting the truths that are self-evident I find many who have been so steeped in errors and misconceptions that they reject truths that are plainly obvious.


Prevention impossible and unnecessary


Natural diet prevents diseases and unnatural diet causes diseases. No amount of "prevention" works if causes are there! 
For clarification: It is not necessary to prevent that which will not happen unless caused! So, in reality, natural diet prevents nothing - the term prevent is used in present day context. Discontinuing and removing causes prevents everything.
When you put the wrong fuel into your car it will perform poorly or it´s engine might even clog up and stop. So if you eat wrong foods your system will also perform poorly, even clog up or stop working.
The humans have particular diet, just as other creatures in nature. We were designed for this diet - we have all the capabilities to digest, utilize, assimilate it.
Most conventional foods intoxicate your body what leads to sickness and deficiencies. When body is full of toxins it will start to cleanse itself and this cleaning crises is called illnesses.


Junky foods make junky bodies!


- Cooked foods are curse in the human body. Nature didnt equip us with cook stoves.
- Heated oils, fats, proteins, starches and sugars are all carcinogenic.
- Overeating is caused by stresses, distresses and by a body driven in a mad quest for nutrients that are missing in current diet eaten.
- Unnatural and deficient foods distress the body causing gross overeating and unnatural weight gain.


Cause of natural living and eating:


1. Vibrant, sickness-free health
2. A lovely, caring and charming person
3. An attractively fit individual
4. A person bubbling over with energy
5. Keen mind and intellect
6. Goodness and happinness in you
7. person who realizes the bountyful potential what you already have naturally given

Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods - Introduction

Im going to make a conspectus of this book in my blog. I was doing the summary of this book in my computer and I thought - why not share it with everybody, so we can all learn :)

You may have tried every diet except...
Your Natural Diet: Alive Raw Foods
by Dr. T. C. Fry & David Klein

Introduction

David Klein was a student of Dr. T. C. Fry, who has had very big impact to Natural Hygiene (1) movement. He studied Natural Hygiene Course, which was masterminded my T. C. Fry. (You can find the original course from here: http://www.transformationinstitute.org/natural_hygiene.html) Then he finally realized what humanity needed to undo disease, suffering and its descent toward extinction. My own self healing through raw foods lit a fire in me what is still raging on. I have a strong desire to help others after recovering from eight years of my own hellacious suffering, my will to live in healthy body and enjoy the fruits of life, and to see my fellow Earth beings realize the same. No one deserves to suffer!


Thomas Henry Huxley - "Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature".

Natural IS the way to be!

Humanity needs to know:
1. We are biological, NOT technological or medical creatures as society believes us to be...
2. Our biological/physiological dietetic construction is FRUGIVORE.
3. "Live foods for live people"
4. Cooking food is destroying it and creating toxins and cancirogenes.
5. EVERY nutrent is available in plant foods
6. Body knows how to heal, we just have to provide the right tools (food, rest, sleep, water, fasting when needed...)
7. Germs do not cause illness - they are all beneficial (they digest plantfoods, synthesize vitamins and clean up wastes)
8. We cannot become healthy if we pollute ourselves with drugs, dead foods etc.
9. Every drug is poison to our body and has no healing power
10. There are no short cuts to health, only body can heal itself and needs conditions to do so (food, rest, water...)
11. We cannot rely on something else that it will heal us, we have to trust our body to heal itself
12. Sickness is not mysterious, we have all the power to get better
13. Disease is not out of our control, its our way of life whats causing the disease
14. We dont have to get sick, "sickness" is natural way of detoxing our body and letting us know that we have to change
15. We should be in perfect health and be happy every day

End notes:
(1) "Natural Hygiene is properly defined as that branch of biology which designates the conditions upon which health depends and the means by which it may be sustained in all its virtue and purity while we have it, and the means upon which its restoration rests when we have lost it. --- It is the scientific application of the principles of nature in the preservation and restoration of health." 
"Hygienic means health preserving. Practically, it implies the observance of the laws of life." H. Shelton, 1968, ch.10; http://naturalhygienesociety.org/present.html

Wwoof-woof in the rainforest

Yesterday we finished Wwoofing in a Heritage Lodge and Spa, in Daintree rainforest. We did general gardening work about 5 hours a day for accommodation and food.

Our supervisors where two gardeners - Patric and Frank. They where both very nice. They told us about previous wwoofers they had, who stayed for over two months. And they did most of the flowerbeds and surrounded them with rocks from the creek. They told us that they need more wwoofers, to help them maintain all that big place so anybody interested? ;)

 Last three days I was weeding and i really enjoyed it, dont know why - i could just be quiet and let my mind wonder around while making flowerbeds and walking pathways beautiful :)

There was about 10 houses with 20 rooms in the resort. The area seemed quite big and houses where nicely separated, surrounded by rainforest, which is listed by UNESCO in 1988 in recognition of its universal natural values and its even believed to be world´s most ancient rainforest. And just next to the lodge property flows by Cooper Creek. After workday and before lunch we dipped ourselves in the nice cool water. Its the most beautiful creek flowing in the forest I have seen :)

But I have to admit that my low fat cooked vegan program was interrupted for that week. The food was made for us by the restaurant chef twice a day, it was Meditarrean style and vegetarian, but not vegan and not low fat. I am not proud, but I just accept it. So he made us pasta, curry, mashed potatoes, rice with vegetables, salads, soups and so on. Since it is rainy season here, there were very few guests and one night we where the only ones in the restaurant and we had to make our own food, they even trusted us to cook in the restaurant´s kitchen :P

We still had lots of bananas and mangoes and watermelon for breakfast, so i didnt entirely ditch my fruit. I cant even remember when was the last time i didnt had fruit for breakfast...even with not being 100% raw i still have had fruit for breakfast all the time. So at least that good habit i have :)

Here is some local fruit stall we found. Just near the road, nobody there but a box to put money in :)

And lunchtime there always came a tourbus with tourist who had lunch in the restaurant. They usually had a big fruit platter, but most of the time they didnt finish it and then we had the fruit platter for lunch as well :) With kiwis, rambutans, passion fruit, oranges, watermelon, pineapple, grapes and so on. Yum!

In our free time we swam in the creek, went to the beach or watched DVDs. We had no connection there. We could have used the internet from the restaurant but i didnt feel like going online - had to take a rest from the virtual world. It was good!

Now we are already in another place where we gonna do "housesit" for 3 weeks. Basically we gonna watch the house and their two dogs and chickens while the owners are travelling. Its a very nice house, but more about it in my next post.

Ah...did i mention that on our way back we dropped buy from our banana "dealer" and got some nice organic ones, two boxes plus some paw-paws :) They are all green still, but it wont take long...I wanna make some banana recipes.


Seeya!