Elimination

~john on May 11th, 2008

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Imagine a clear hose with different sized holes in it. Millions of them are very small, with a small number of larger ones. Water is then run through the hose and starts squirting out the different holes. After the water, slimy goo is pumped through the hose. It also oozes out of the holes and eventually many of the smaller ones get gunked up and the goo can go through them only partially and sometimes not at all.

Our elimination system is the hose. As food is processed the body starts expelling. Some of it is released through sweat and some through mucus in your nose and on your tongue. The rest comes out in the toilet or is stored in the body. As part of the process, our body is designed to expel any waste and toxins that are in it. In addition to the waste that the body cannot use, they contain the toxins that our body knows is poisonous and really wants to expel. This is why shit, sweat and other bodily fluids smell badly and are repulsive to us.

Does your body react to even the sounds of these words? Is it uncomfortable to even think about? On the surface this can seem like some uptight societal conditioning and to some extent it is. But the reason to bring conscious to it is the biological fact that there is a visceral reaction to shit because your body literally wants to get away from it. Also that shit is not only bad for the individual, but the careless disposal of it can lead to serious illness for others.

For those on a diet high in mucus causing foods, the body is constantly struggling to get rid of the toxins. Unfortunately at a certain point, parts of the elimination system get clogged up and shut down causing the mucus to be stored in the body which eventually causes a great strain on the inner organs and is the main cause for the majority of diseases.

You can assist your body in expelling this mucus in a number of ways. A major one is with a simple device called a tongue scraper. You can get one of these for a few bucks in the local health food store or online. You will be amazed at the gunk that comes off of your tongue! This is a great way to keep your breath fresh. I find that when I do eat cooked food, my body starts expelling mucus out from my tongue right away. Thick rolls of white mucus. Yuck! But I am glad to get it out, otherwise it would be reabsorbed into my body which would try again and again to expel it in different ways or possibly even cause a disease.

Another way to assist is to just be conscious when waste wants to come out and help it along by blowing it out or however you can assist it. Of course the best way of all is to greatly minimize your waste and toxins is by eating a diet of raw/living foods.

Of course! ;-)

-John

 

Bill Maher on Big Pharma

~john on December 4th, 2007

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This is a really funny YouTube video of Bill Maher going off on health care and the complete lack of information on preventative health from the presidential candidates touting their lame health care plans.

 

The Health Freedom Protection Act

~john on October 23rd, 2007

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I have become fascinated with the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul. Although running as a Republican, he is really a libertarian and what he terms a constitutionalist…that is he always makes his congressional vote on any topic based on whether it is upheld by the constitution…a radical idea these days! While I don’t agree on every issue with him, I agree with his core ideals of individual liberty and his foreign policy of non-interventionism (except for Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate calling for an immediate end to the Iraq war!).

What readers of this site might find interesting is his Health Freedom Protection Act. If you are worried about Codex Alimentarius (and you should be!) and similar infringements from big pharma on your right to alternative health treatments, then this bill will cheer you up!

I strongly urge you to check out Ron Paul and where he stands on the issues. There is a large and growing grassroots movement to get him elected. It’s a rare thing for me to get excited about a presidential candidate, but here is a man with integrity and one that will work to restore the constitution that has been shredded by the gang of thieves currently in the white house. His website is http://www.ronpaul2008.com.

 

Gourmet Raw Food

~john on October 18th, 2007

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Yesterday, me and Kala prepared a gourmet raw food feast for 20 people..

The menu was:
Living Lasagna
Cabbage Salad
Marinated Eggplant
Hummus and Flax Crackers
Carrot Cake

It was fantastic! The food all came out amazingly delicious and I’m impressed with both of our gourmet cuisine skills. But it was all a LOT of work! In fact it took us pretty much the entire day. The big time use was of course the lasagna which had 6 different layers all prepared separately: tomato sauce, nut cheese, nut meat, pesto, marinated greens and sliced zucchini.

I remember how important dishes like this were when I first started on the raw trip (almost a year now!). They were a great transition food and you can see many of our recipes in the recipes category….now my diet is so much simpler….a large superfood smoothie in the morning (raw cacao, maca, bee pollen, mesquite, berries and much more!)..then snack through the day mostly on whole foods: apples, oranges, hemp seeds, olives, coconut butter…sometimes a salad…only very occasionally do we make fancy food….

I’m happy to be so satisfied on such a simple diet..it makes my life so much easier! Also I noticed just how nut-heavy our meal yesterday was. I cannot imagine eating that many nuts regularly again. I usually make hemp seed milk in the morning for my smoothie instead of almond milk…I find seeds much easier to digest..now I have nuts only occasionally and in smaller quantities.

But it was quite gratifying to make such an amazing feast that the all of the “cooked fooders” there were blown away by the quality of it..Some of them are going to come to our Body Temple event too. Yay!

 

Maintaining a High Vibe

~john on October 6th, 2007

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Last night I had an unusual evening of feeling down…it’s very rare for me these days to feel depressed or down or anxious. Staying on a mostly raw diet with an infusion of high-octane superfoods keeps me in a mostly perpetual state of happiness. So what caused these negative emotions? A number of things happened yesterday but the main culprit is obvious to me: I had eaten a cooked meal including bread, cooked veggies, potato chips and a few other cooked items. My whole energy field went CA-KLUNK! (yes it actually made that sound!).

For the most part when I look around at people, I can see that most of them are anxious, mildly depressed and generally ill at ease in their bodies. Most have a constant source of bodily pain of some type…backaches, headaches, digestive issues etc. A surprisingly large number are on some sort of prescribed chemical cocktail. The other day me and my partner went to my sons school open house. There we were with a room full of parents. It was strange….I felt like I was in a room of old people…like I didn’t belong there. Were all of these people pretty much my age or younger? It was hard to believe. Generally we tend to hang out with people younger than us finding people our age to be quite mature (i.e. dull). Seeing these parents was further motivation for me to stay on the high vibe diet. I do not want to get old!!

So how even after that was I in a cafe yesterday eating a sandwich? Cooked food is addictive!! Very very addictive. If you’ve tried to eat all raw you’ll know what I mean. I find having an all raw partner helps immensely (she’s much better at not cheating than me). When I’m alone like yesterday I am much more likely to cheat. But I’m not going to get down on it…I’m on a journey and when I fall I get back up again. The important thing is that I do not do such things unconsciously…I was very conscious that the “food” was bad for me and that it would make me feel ill…for whatever reason, the impulse to eat and enjoy it was stronger than my fear of feeling ill. In retrospect it was of course not worth it to enjoy my sandwich for 10 minutes and feel crappy the rest of the day.

I did come to the realization (again) that cooked food ruins your taste for REAL (uncooked) food and eating ALL REAL food (98%+) ruins your taste for cooked food. This hovering at 80%-90% keeps me in a state of anxiety where I always have to make decisions on whether to cheat or not. When I’m a true raw foodist, I do not even have to think…I’ll look at the cookies in the bakery and of course say no because they’re cooked..or I’ll look at the food I’m making for my son and of course I don’t eat it..it’s cooked! I do not have to make constant decisions. So I am once again getting back up in the saddle and going for it. I will let you know how it goes!

 

Happy Equinox

~john on September 24th, 2007

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Happy Equinox everyone! Alas this journal has been quite neglected…through a very busy spring and very relaxed summer I have not posted…but I am thinking to get back to this on a more regular basis now that things are cooling down up here in the North and I have more time.

I’m still on the raw food and loving it! I seem to grow younger all the time..not only in looks, but in how I feel. I can hardly believe it when I look at photos of myself a year ago. I will see if I can get some more before/after photos. Mostly though I am absolutely thrilled at the discovery of Superfoods…these are foods of high nutritional density and are having an incredible impact on me. I have been using a superfood blend for several months now and my overall vibrancy level is awesome. These foods are full of minerals that we don’t normally get…even on a raw food diet so I feel my body being remineralized…I used to wake up craving tea in the morning…now I get up and crave my superfood!!

I will do a whole post about superfoods soon with recommendations..I would actually like to write a book on the subject and perhaps I will!

 

Raw Tuna

~john on May 22nd, 2007

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One of my favorites:

Raw Tuna Recipe:

Soak a cup of almonds and a cup of sunflower seeds for at least 6 hours
Put 2 cloves of garlic in food processor and blend
Add almonds and seeds and 1/2 cup of olive oil (or less or more to taste)
Shake in good amount of dulse (or other ground seaweed) to taste
Squeeze in juice from one lemon
Sea salt and tamari to taste
Basil and/or other dried herbs to taste
Blend well
Finely chop by hand 4 stalks of celery and 1/2 red onion and mix them in

Enjoy!

Green Smoothie Recipe

~john on May 15th, 2007

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There are many ways of making a green smoothie. This is my favorite:

Start with several different kinds of greens. In addition to romaine, spinach etc, you can also carrot tops, celery tops etc. The wider the variety of greens, the wider variety of vitamins and minerals! I fill up my vitamix up the one quart level with loose leaf per drink. Then I add a good handful of frozen mango chunks, about 1/2 handful of pineapple chunks and some 1/2 handful of rasberries. Then I add about one cup of water and blend.

Other variations include adding a banana, grinding some flax seed first before the greens, fresh papaya, strawberries, blueberries and just about anything else yummy and raw. I’m hooked!!

An Odd (but great!) Recipe

~john on May 13th, 2007

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If you’re strict about food combining you may not like this one…if not you will probably love it!

Slice up 2 avocados into small chunks
Slice up one orange into small chunks

Squeeze together with hands…I take a couple of chunks of orange and squeeze the juice out of them too.
Add sea salt to taste
Enjoy!

This is a combination I would not have thought of…got it in some book…it’s yummy!

Loving the Greens

~john on May 10th, 2007

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Not so surprisingly from my last post I have gotten addicted to green smoothies!…I can taste one in my mind right now. mmmmmm…..it’s the kind of feeling you get when you give your body something it really needs. A deep sense of satisfaction. We got the idea from the book Green for Life by Vicoria Boutenko which I recommend.

We got our Vitamix a couple of weeks ago and have been digging it up and down. Every morning we’ll put a big bunch of greens of all different kinds in it along with some water and fruit chunks…I like using frozen mango, pineapple and banana especially. The vitamix makes quick work of it and it turns into a yummy green/fruit smoothie. I prefer more fruit than Kala does, but either way it is plenty green. We have also been throwing in some wild edibles such as nettles and dandelion.

The magic of it is that it is predigested….normally one would have to chew and chew greens to get them to this state which we of course don’t naturally do. With the cell walls ruptured, you’re drinking a glass of totally assimilative chlorophyll! It is different from juicing as it is a whole food….plenty of fiber in it.

In any case I’m hooked! The vitamix is great, though one could do it in a blender as well. We have been using the vitamix to make fruit sorbet, soups (avocado, cucumber and tomato is my favorite!) and almond milk. I’d highly recommend getting one though it is expensive. In the long run though it will live on the length of many blenders. It can also handle anything! I put frozen solid fruit in there and it makes a yummy frozen fruit smoothie. It’s a real badass piece of machinery for a raw foodist to own!

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