The Price of Sugar

Here is yet one more reason why your not eating refined sugar is a good thing. Not only is it bad for your health, it's bad for the health of the people involved iwth the growing and harvesting and processing of the sugar. Check out th trailer.




Thank you, Kevin.

Veggie Therapy

...just because. There are so many ways to communicate a notion. This was a cute video which Kevin of Lord Supreme Being Vegan alerted me to. ;)

Equipment Needed

To convert clean real food into a green smoothie use what you have. If all you have is your body then take small bites and chew untl you hae a creay consistency and then swallow.

If in additon to your body you have a blender. Fine, use it. The horse power and durability of the juicer will determine how much you have to cut up the whole food before putting it into the mix. So you add your chopped whole food andsome pure water. For sweetness you can add pitted dates, agave or raw honey. By the way honey is an animal product that is avoiced by some vegans. Personally I don't know enouhg about honey in th elife cycle of bees to feel drawn to or repulsed by the notion of cosuming honey. I'm neutral on the subject.

If you have a juicer. Fine, use it. A juicer grins the food to a pulp and extracts the juice in the process. You drink the extrat. The pulp can also be eaten. In the past I've used the pulp as an ingrediet to ake veggie burgurs. I've also used it to make a poultice and a face mask.

Both a juicer and a blender can result in smeting that you can drink. The blener give u the whole food in liquid form. The Juicer is giving you oly the extracted juice.

We do not digest cellulose, the stuff of plant cell walls however roughage (the pup, the cellulose) is a physical way to move bulk into , throgh and out of our lower bowel. And..who konw what. I've heard that excess estrogen is elimnated through the bowel and that a high fiber diet encourages such elimination.

I love the way Ani puts it. I love the way Victoria sees it. For me, my natural food and I have co-evolved. We are a perfect match. For me consuming whle food is the best. Assisting my body with chewing (blending/liquifying) before consumption is a way to increase the amount of what I eat that is actually digested and absorbed.

Jason Vale and the Miracle of Juicing

"biologique" is a term used as we use "organic". "Anais" is a term used as we use "pineapple" Note the comment about heating.

What a nice thing to lie wel, produce srplus and share the surplus in exchange for what we may need that we ourselves do not produce. Yes, a greem business is where it is at. I just had a wonderful juice of whole pineable, whole celery, a clove of garlic and a third of a jalapeno pepper. Marvelous, simply MARVELOUS. I wonder what Dad is putting in his power drink this morning.

Ultimate Smoothie with David Wolfe

Whatcha Gonna Feed Your Prety Little Baby?

Colonic at Tummy Temple

This is a gentle, yet mechanical, way of clearning the colon of debris. It is gnerally more effective than inserting a low melting slippery object into the rectum or using an enema bag at home. Using a olema board at home is probably the closest way of replicating the colonic experience at home without all of the high tech equipment.

This has nothing to do with green smoothies directly. Some people change their consumption for the express purpose of "cleanisn" their colon, so I wanted to ad ths post for educational/awareness purposes.

A clean raw vegan diet with plenty of hydration, sleep and physical motion an sunlight should be in and of itself "cleansing." Getting rid of ingested toxins and created wasts is a natual bodily function. Like theperson in the videosays, he was using colon hydrotherapy as a starting point to mark hs entry onto the path to improved health and fitnesss.

Vegetarian Video by a Vegetarian

This video, unlike the one in the post below, has next to no gore. The other one is full of gore. Anyway, it's all true, this is how animal products are produced--these are the raw ingredients--pain, filth, torture, drugs, disease, murder...

Yeah, I think I'll have a mango and have a pineapple-green smoothie. How 'bout you?

Reasons to Be a Vegetarian

For even more graphic gore visit my MySpace friend, "VeganTHIS"

Even People Who Eat Animals Use Vitamix!

By the way, eating animals, eating plants, eating animal parts and product, eating plant parts and products...to live we consume life. Now of course some of us do not consume life. For a growing number of us on the planet our intake is more and more the product of an industrial labs synthesis.

All that to say, I don't eat animals but I am not holier than thou. Maybe I'm just choosing to be responsible for my health, choosing to be independent of a pharmaceutical-medical industry whose reason for being is NOT my welfare but their monetary bottom line.

Sesame Seed Milk

Notice the comment regarding the benefit of a 3.5(horsepower?) blender: more thorough break down in a shorter time. The chef hints at the fact that all of this motion is generating heat and if someone is concerned about maintaining the vitality of the enzymes contained in the seeds. Heat kills enzymes. That's why its healthier not to eat cooked food. Eating food that hasn't been cooked means that we are eating food that contains within itself the enzymes needed to digest it!

Also notice she is using agave, which can be light or dark in color. The nut milk bag can be purchased as such however you can also buy a bag used to filter paint. It's less expensive. Also you can make a bag using fabric that you have on hand. I have used a thin and age old scarf as a filter. No problem. ;)

Hey, I've worn my hair like that before!

Almond Milk

Fuzzy Navel Smoothie

By the way, Ani has a company called Smart Monkey Foods. I ordered their raw food bars and they were all DELICIOUS! My personal favorite are the sesame snap and the ginger snap. You can get a variety pack of 4 or 6 directly from their site or cases of any of the 6+ varieties from Amazon (linked from Smart Monkey).

Oh, and you can hear an interview of Ani Phyo on Raw Vegan Radio.

Ani pronounces "Phyo" this way: pea (like, "green pea") + oh (like "oh, I knew that!)

Chocolate Smoothie

I think I'd like to try raw cacao (chocolate)...and I'd definitely want MORE dates and MORE chocolate and MORE nuts! Hey, ever tried agave? Me, neither but some "purists" use it in lieu of honey because it's natural production has nothing to do with animals (or insects...buzzzzzz)

Brown Smoothies

Green Smoothie

Chimpanzees & Humans & Victoria's Discovery

• Chimpanzees and humans are nearly 99% genetically identical.
• Humans are the only creature that cook their food
• Cooking destroys the enzymes contained in the food
• Cooked food therefore is more difficult to digest--more time, more work

It occured to Victoria Boutenko that if human and chimpanzees are so closely related genetically, evolutionarily, then perhaps it would be a healthy thing, even a health restoring thing, to eat as chimpanzees eat. No, I don't mean poking sticks in ant holes or termite dens and dragging the insect filled sticks across our tongues.

Visit the Raw Family and pick up Victoria's book if you're interested. Also check out their event/presentation schedule. They will be at this years Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona Arizona USA.

Very Simply Liquid Greens

Real Food for Real People

What is real food for real people you ask? Well the picture above is a big hint.

And here is another hint as to what it is NOT! If you haven't seen "Super Size Me" you may enjoy it.

Okay so, for real people, here's my definition of "real food".

Real food is that which can be found naturally in nature and that can be eaten whole without ill effect. An apple is an example of "real food". An apple put into a blender with a bit of pure water and liquified is an example of processed "real food"...that is still "real food."

A big mac with fries and a shake is NOT an example of "real food". Not even if you put it all in a super duper blender and serve it to your toothless uncle for lunch. Now you wouldn't try something like that would you? Putting it in a blender does not make it "real food" either!