Day 7: Dinner: Hollowed out Roma tomato with avocado filling, onions, and cucumber topping
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Notes from "Food Matters"
"You Are What You Eat"
Live enzymes in Raw food. Cooked food kills enzymes and your body doesn't recognize it and white Blood Cells attack.
"If you eat more than 51% cooked food your body is attacking it as a foreign organism. If 51% of your food was raw you would have no white blood cells attack so your immune system would be given no false alarms and would be strengthened."
Some Superfoods: (Raw, Organic) Raw Honey, Goji Berries, Echinacea, Spirulina (highest protein out of any food, even above meat and dairy), Wheatgrass, Noni, Maca, Acai, Coconut, Bee Pollen, Ginger, Cacao (magnesium, copper, iron), Turmeric, Dulse, Kombu, Kelp, Durian, Chlorella, Golden Seal, Nettle, Blue Green Algae, Barley Grass, Propolis, Royal Jelly, and Wakame.
(Half the protein from meat and such is cooked so that the protein is ruined and not absorbable by your body)
Cacao is the highest antioxidant which helps protect your skin and overall health. Cacao has also the highest Vitamin C. Cacao is the root of chocolate, but processed chocolate (Hershey's and such) has little to no Vitamin C because of the high levels of its process and how it is cooked. Cacao is also a metabolism booster.
Less than 6% of medical doctors (pediatricians, surgeons, etc.) receive nutritional degrees (nutrition, food, lifestyle).
Benefits from Vitamins:
Vitamin E: heart disease, seizure, epilepsy, and healing burns(vitamin e oil)
Niacin/Vitamin E and a handful of cashews: used in benefit of depression and alcoholism
Vitamin C: Anti-toxin, Anti-histamine, Anti-viral, blood sugar regulation, and mood elevator
"When the body heals, it heals completely"
Vitamins enable the body to heal and become stronger by giving the best tools, all within the body.
Three Key Points to Optimum Health and Life: Exercise, Nutrition, and Meditation
Dr. Dean Ornish (M.D.) speaks about benefits of vegetarianism
"When in doubt, use nutrition."
Ways of Detoxification: colonics, enemas(coffee), and water
Detox to allow nutrients to be better absorbed. You want to detox out of your bowels, dangerous if detoxing is happening through pores (sweating and such)
Each day before eating or drinking tea, coffee, juice, etc. drink 2 liters to help detoxification and whole process of absorbing optimum nutrients throughout your day.
Orthomolecular: Therapeutic health care
It is illegal for a medical doctor to prescribe nutritional therapy to cancer or diseased patients in the United States and other countries. All that is prescribed are drugs, chemo therapy, radiation, etc.
"People need education, not medication"
Nutrition should be the primary prevention. The choices you make directly affect the outcome of your life. If we change our food choices we change agriculture which alters the environmental crisis going on today.
The shift from corn, wheat, and soy to Organic, Raw, Superfoods changes our entire interaction with the planet.
"We could grow Genetically Modified corn of the most extraordinary Goji Berries in the world."
Back to Basics, finding cultures without diseases and longer life.
The best doctor and nutritionist is You!
You have all the tools in you, your body knows what feels right, it takes learning and listening.
This requires responsibilities to yourself when we choose Raw and Organic we take our Power back! (:
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Day 3 Thoughts
I feel a lot more energized eating all foods LIVE and Raw! I feel more ALIVE!(: I am missing TV, but feel I have much more time to go outside and soak up some Vitamin D (Sun) and exercise. I have been reading scripture in the morning and at night as well as keeping certain passages in my mind throughout the day. There have been many of my friends and other students that are curious about my Raw journey. It is so exciting to teach a little about eating Organic, the importance of it, and then being Vegan and Raw on top of that. I have been keeping up with my video blog although it is only day 3. But I believe the first few days are hard, because its the transition period. An interesting quote I saw on a sticker was by Gandhi saying, "An eye for an eye and the whole world would be blind..." So true. It's important to not always point the blame or seek revenge. Forgive and Learn from your mistakes as well as others. "Forgive us our trespasses and we forgive those who trespass against us." (From the Our Father). This part helps me remember that God forgives us of our sins no matter how major or minor; it's important to think of this and forgive those who hurt you. (: Love is the answer. ~Anna(:
My Lent Journey
My Lent Journey: (40 Days)
1. 100% Organic, Raw, Vegan
2. Exercise Once a Day
3. Limited Media (Nothing but local calls on cell phone. No TV shows on laptop or social networking sites such as tumblr, twitter, etc.) Laptop still used for homework.
4. Read Bible passages and reflect each day.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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