Well actually nothing! Well not directly.
One of the complaints I hear about adopting a great way of eating (incorporating appropriate raw elements) is that it costs too much to eat organic everyday. Here are five creative ways to get around this,
1. Eat seasonal, when things are in abundance they are cheaper.
2. Getting organic certification can include a lot of jumping through hoops, so some farms just don't bother. But in spirit they're organic. At Farmers Markets just ask if produce is unsprayed if not marked organic.
3.Buy in bulk, especially special offers.
4. Calculate the real value. Raw milk is not that expensive and it is practically a complete food, easy to digest, and it's nutritional value skyrockets further if fermented with kefir grains. www.lovekefir.com
5. Create some more income! Either by re-prioritising your expenses, selling possessions you don't need any more, or turning an idea into cashflow. Simpleology.com has reduced its infoproduct creation kit from $97 to $8 (yes, eight dollars, I bought it for $2 at the beginning of the promotion. Sorry!). So why not check it out at Simpleology not sure how long before it shoots back up to $97. And have a look at the course, Simpleology 202 (the simple science of real money and financial stability) available for nada at the moment (yes nada).
I thought I should let you know.
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Monday, 27 September 2010
Friday, 10 September 2010
Greens Mean Lean
As you can see I've been playing with the design keeping things fresh! Which segues nicely into today's subject, greens. Fact: There isn't a one size fits all diet. Fact: Nutrient density is major key in maintaining and keeping a lean strong and healthy body. I eat spinach, and seaweed like they're going out of fashion!
One food group (I call it a food group) to punch above it's weight in providing nutrients per calorie are the family green..spinach, kale, chard, lettuce, celery and so on. Whatever your way of eating if you start to add greens to your daily meals, you will very quickly see a change in your hunger patterns and body shape and more. Feel free to eat in a way that suits your body e.g raw soups, heated soups, salads, smoothies and wraps etc.
When you don't have access to fresh greens due to lifestyle e,g, travel or seasonality there are some excellent green powders around. I use Amazing Grass (new sponsor of my blog) please check out the links, I have used both the green, and the choc version. I add it to my kefir for turbo charged raw nutrition. http://www.lovekefir.com/
I remember way back when I started to add a handful of raw spinach to my jacket potato and beans. My skin became super soft. And I now have a big green soup of seasonal veg practically every day! Would love to hear about your green adventures too.
If you live in North London check out Farm-Direct http://www.farm-direct.com/
I stumbled across them on my wanderings last year. I was walking along and spotted this sign I turned into the side road and there they were. They offer an online service to a number of North London postcodes, and they also hold a lot of produce that you can buy direct from them. Check out the website both it, and the fresh food shown is beautiful.
One food group (I call it a food group) to punch above it's weight in providing nutrients per calorie are the family green..spinach, kale, chard, lettuce, celery and so on. Whatever your way of eating if you start to add greens to your daily meals, you will very quickly see a change in your hunger patterns and body shape and more. Feel free to eat in a way that suits your body e.g raw soups, heated soups, salads, smoothies and wraps etc.
When you don't have access to fresh greens due to lifestyle e,g, travel or seasonality there are some excellent green powders around. I use Amazing Grass (new sponsor of my blog) please check out the links, I have used both the green, and the choc version. I add it to my kefir for turbo charged raw nutrition. http://www.lovekefir.com/
I remember way back when I started to add a handful of raw spinach to my jacket potato and beans. My skin became super soft. And I now have a big green soup of seasonal veg practically every day! Would love to hear about your green adventures too.
If you live in North London check out Farm-Direct http://www.farm-direct.com/
I stumbled across them on my wanderings last year. I was walking along and spotted this sign I turned into the side road and there they were. They offer an online service to a number of North London postcodes, and they also hold a lot of produce that you can buy direct from them. Check out the website both it, and the fresh food shown is beautiful.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
The Nurturers
We can always recognise more truth about nutrition..
Read two books on body types recently, The Body Code by Jay Cooper, and Dr Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan. I'm always reading nutrition books to see what wisdom lurks within (or not!). These two books rest on a similar premise, that we all fall broadly into four hormonal types, thyroid, gonadal, adrenal and pituitary (the Body Code refers to them as communicator, nurturer, warrior and visionary).
Interestingly both books highlight the nurturer/gonadal type as the ones most suited to a plant-based high water content way of eating (in the long term), but including small amounts of animal foods such as fish and non-fat dairy. Gonads (women only for this type, the other three types include men) are larger from the waist down and narrower from the waist up i.e. pear-shaped.
The material could help you customise a raw diet that supports your health. I'm aware that some raw vegans have b12 issues, teeth issues, particularly teeth issues and others (which can be linked to lack of nutrients that can only be found in quality animal foods like B12, Vit D etc). This will affect certain body types more than others so do be aware. Raw (unpasteurised) dairy is a great way to get that extra vital nutrition and stay 100% raw if you want. If that's not available or you don't want to go there, check out wholefood supplementation (with your nutritionist/health support). I can recommend New Chapter Organics available through Iherb.com and at Planet Organic and Wholefoods. Pricey but effective, ethical and totally food based so your body recognises it as food, and can take what's needed. No chemical weird stuff.
What is your body type?
The Body Code: A Personal Wellness And Weight Loss Plan At The World Famous Green Valley Spa
Dr. Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Is Raw Vegan the Holy Grail of Diets?
Well this may be a bit of a controversial post!
Do I think raw vegan is the only way to go? As fab a protocol as it is, the answer would have to be .. no.
Ten reasons to go raw vegan for a while (and a while will be dependent on your particular body, environment, needs and lifestyle factors)
1. Kick starting a healthful eating lifestyle
2. Showing you where your weaknesses are e.g emotional eating, types of non foods you're addicted to
3. Easing the digestive load on your body during times of stress or to release vital energy for cleansing and healing purposes
4. Seeing an immediate impact of fresh fruits and vegetables on the integrity of the body
5. Getting in touch with your intuition
6. Getting in touch with how food grows
7. As part of an overall plan to simplify your life
8. Emergency health measures
9. Preparing for a fast
10. For the fun of it!
And there may be others.. however..
I don't believe there is a one diet fits all, well I know there isn't one. I'm a nutritionist, avid researcher and learner and love testing out ideas on my own self and this concept is clear to me. What there is though is a set of time-tested principles that you can create your own diet around (diet=eating plan) when you have a clear understanding of your own body and how it functions.
Raw is one element. No one needs to eat 100% raw vegan and I wouldn't recommend it as a forever way of eating. And that's not coming from a fear-based perspective but a principle-based perspective. I'll do some more posts on 100% raw for the long term and what you need to be looking out for.
It's very easy to get caught up in a label and I had to be careful myself. The important thing is the experience that you are having and how it is integrating with the rest of your whole life.
Later ;)
Do I think raw vegan is the only way to go? As fab a protocol as it is, the answer would have to be .. no.
Ten reasons to go raw vegan for a while (and a while will be dependent on your particular body, environment, needs and lifestyle factors)
1. Kick starting a healthful eating lifestyle
2. Showing you where your weaknesses are e.g emotional eating, types of non foods you're addicted to
3. Easing the digestive load on your body during times of stress or to release vital energy for cleansing and healing purposes
4. Seeing an immediate impact of fresh fruits and vegetables on the integrity of the body
5. Getting in touch with your intuition
6. Getting in touch with how food grows
7. As part of an overall plan to simplify your life
8. Emergency health measures
9. Preparing for a fast
10. For the fun of it!
And there may be others.. however..
I don't believe there is a one diet fits all, well I know there isn't one. I'm a nutritionist, avid researcher and learner and love testing out ideas on my own self and this concept is clear to me. What there is though is a set of time-tested principles that you can create your own diet around (diet=eating plan) when you have a clear understanding of your own body and how it functions.
Raw is one element. No one needs to eat 100% raw vegan and I wouldn't recommend it as a forever way of eating. And that's not coming from a fear-based perspective but a principle-based perspective. I'll do some more posts on 100% raw for the long term and what you need to be looking out for.
It's very easy to get caught up in a label and I had to be careful myself. The important thing is the experience that you are having and how it is integrating with the rest of your whole life.
Later ;)
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Reasons to go Raw
Before I go into some of the reasons why I think going raw is a good idea.. techie update!! I'm going to have to burn a new food as the Feedburner one seems to be in the ether somewhere. I'll do that later today. I will also post again tomorrow, so if you don't receive anything please come back and re-subscribe!! And thank-you to those who are following me!!
These are some of the three top benefits of going raw,
Increasing awareness
You become more aware of yourself, all aspects! You come out of hiding so to speak. If you've got a lot of anger suddenly it comes surging out (there is also a side of this that is linked to B12 deficiency but that's for another post). If you are unhappy with some part of your life there it is staring you in the face demanding your involvement. I know I became so much aware of what I was eating, why I was eating and so on. Emotional eating is often brought to light as well. I was able to conquer emotional eating through eating wholly raw. There is only so much fruit, veg or even nuts one can be interesting in eating regardless of how much distraction is required! The beauty of increasing awareness is the ability to choose.
Immediate health results
Eating nutrient-rich, high water food can help you see immediate health results that motivate you on to your bigger vision. These signs of vibrancy include more energy, better sleep, clearer skin, shedding excess fat/weight and more intangible things like increased hope, starting to dream big and feeling you have something to contribute.
Sensitivity to your own intuition
When you start to unravel habits that have been causing you to live small and to supress your emotions (as opposed to transforming or expressing them), within a life of taking responsibility for your life and what you want to see, things change! You start to get in touch with yourself, to hear yourself, to experience synchronicities and see next steps. This is why going raw can be such an addictive phenomenon, and seen as the panacea for everything. ;)
Tomorrow I will be posting on whether I think raw vegan is the perfect 'diet' for mankind!
ps
made some lovely green juice at the weekend combining pineapple and spinach (and diluting with water). Pineapples have the active enzyme, bromelain that benefits the human body in a number of ways including,
reducing swelling and inflammation
loosening old matter in the gut and accumulated mucus in the respiratory tract
helping with a sluggish immune system
helping with digestion ... and much more.
It is brilliant for doing a cleanse, and I like to have this juice at the end of a period of fasting to help sweep out the toxins and old food debris!
These are some of the three top benefits of going raw,
Increasing awareness
You become more aware of yourself, all aspects! You come out of hiding so to speak. If you've got a lot of anger suddenly it comes surging out (there is also a side of this that is linked to B12 deficiency but that's for another post). If you are unhappy with some part of your life there it is staring you in the face demanding your involvement. I know I became so much aware of what I was eating, why I was eating and so on. Emotional eating is often brought to light as well. I was able to conquer emotional eating through eating wholly raw. There is only so much fruit, veg or even nuts one can be interesting in eating regardless of how much distraction is required! The beauty of increasing awareness is the ability to choose.
Immediate health results
Eating nutrient-rich, high water food can help you see immediate health results that motivate you on to your bigger vision. These signs of vibrancy include more energy, better sleep, clearer skin, shedding excess fat/weight and more intangible things like increased hope, starting to dream big and feeling you have something to contribute.
Sensitivity to your own intuition
When you start to unravel habits that have been causing you to live small and to supress your emotions (as opposed to transforming or expressing them), within a life of taking responsibility for your life and what you want to see, things change! You start to get in touch with yourself, to hear yourself, to experience synchronicities and see next steps. This is why going raw can be such an addictive phenomenon, and seen as the panacea for everything. ;)
Tomorrow I will be posting on whether I think raw vegan is the perfect 'diet' for mankind!
ps
made some lovely green juice at the weekend combining pineapple and spinach (and diluting with water). Pineapples have the active enzyme, bromelain that benefits the human body in a number of ways including,
reducing swelling and inflammation
loosening old matter in the gut and accumulated mucus in the respiratory tract
helping with a sluggish immune system
helping with digestion ... and much more.
It is brilliant for doing a cleanse, and I like to have this juice at the end of a period of fasting to help sweep out the toxins and old food debris!
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Notes From The Lecture
A little update from the BC lecture here in London a couple of weeks ago..
First up I had young coconuts for the first time, absolutely delicious. Where have I been all my life! Drank the water through a straw and then it was hacked open so I could scoop out the coconut flesh. Update over..only joking.
Brian was late problems in Paris I think.. I will intersperse with my own thoughts in bold..
He talked about the campaign to grow/eat organic foods at popcampaign.org and expressed dismay at the widespread use of GM foods in the states and apparently sneaking in the backdoor in the UK. I haven't done any research on that but wouldnt be surprised. Corn and soya are the most common GM products so be aware when you buy.
My thoughts
Eat Simply
Eat Organic
Know your source
Here are some things that caught my attention (I tend to pick up what resonates and leave the rest)
- The weaker you become on a physiological and emotional basis the more controllable you become
- Emotional disorder is at the root of disease
- Food can be a mirror of how you feel about yourself
- The degree to which you love yourself is the degree to which you will eat appropriately (mindfully, healthfully)
- Once you value your life nothing is difficult
- If a mother lives well usually the whole family fall in line
- Excuses will not get you anywhere but commitment will get you to where you want to go
- You don't commit to the raw food diet you commit to yourself, raw food may be a vehicle that helps you in your comitment (paraphrase)
- Validate your values by taking action, this creates virtue, then commitment, then whole lives
- The most important thing about being alive is that we have endless potential
- People who are incredibly good at what they do are committed, they only do things they love. They don't do anything they don't want to
-There is a passionate way or no way
-We just do not the nature of things
- Re isolated synthetic vitamins - even at the most basic level vitamins and minerals will never perform fully without their co-factors
- Vitamin C is not simply Ascorbic acid (manufactured version) there is more to it
- 68% of people lack vitamin C
- Enzymes great est antidote to ageing and helps digestion (My thoughts: yay for raw milk ..Brian wouldn't agree).
First up I had young coconuts for the first time, absolutely delicious. Where have I been all my life! Drank the water through a straw and then it was hacked open so I could scoop out the coconut flesh. Update over..only joking.
Brian was late problems in Paris I think.. I will intersperse with my own thoughts in bold..
He talked about the campaign to grow/eat organic foods at popcampaign.org and expressed dismay at the widespread use of GM foods in the states and apparently sneaking in the backdoor in the UK. I haven't done any research on that but wouldnt be surprised. Corn and soya are the most common GM products so be aware when you buy.
My thoughts
Eat Simply
Eat Organic
Know your source
Here are some things that caught my attention (I tend to pick up what resonates and leave the rest)
- The weaker you become on a physiological and emotional basis the more controllable you become
- Emotional disorder is at the root of disease
- Food can be a mirror of how you feel about yourself
- The degree to which you love yourself is the degree to which you will eat appropriately (mindfully, healthfully)
- Once you value your life nothing is difficult
- If a mother lives well usually the whole family fall in line
- Excuses will not get you anywhere but commitment will get you to where you want to go
- You don't commit to the raw food diet you commit to yourself, raw food may be a vehicle that helps you in your comitment (paraphrase)
- Validate your values by taking action, this creates virtue, then commitment, then whole lives
- The most important thing about being alive is that we have endless potential
- People who are incredibly good at what they do are committed, they only do things they love. They don't do anything they don't want to
-There is a passionate way or no way
-We just do not the nature of things
- Re isolated synthetic vitamins - even at the most basic level vitamins and minerals will never perform fully without their co-factors
- Vitamin C is not simply Ascorbic acid (manufactured version) there is more to it
- 68% of people lack vitamin C
- Enzymes great est antidote to ageing and helps digestion (My thoughts: yay for raw milk ..Brian wouldn't agree).
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Brian Clement in London
Hello lovely people! it's 2010, it' halfway through 2010 aaaarrrgghh!!
This is a short post, just in case you are in London, Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute will be speaking at Friends House, near Euston Station on Sunday 27 Jun 11.30am.
Go to http://www.fresh-network.com/ for tickets.
Hippocrates LifeForce
Supplements Exposed: The Truth They Don't Want You to Know About Vitamins, Minerals, and Their Effects on Your Health
I've had some problems with my posting with old posts going out, and with the changes with Feedburner I'm still trying to get into my account. So may have to ask you all to subscribe using a different feed. I'll let you know. Hope all is well with you. I was thinking of shutting down this blog but have decided not to, but am starting another one related to food as my journey evolves!
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