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Thoughts From Paradise
by David Klein, Ph.D., H.D.
This new age of digital information is accelerating at a dizzying pace, from terabytes to the clouds to our over-fired neurons. From the ashes of the nearly obsolete print media sector, digital media is sprouting forth in a fashion that is both revolutionary and alarming at the same time. It thrills me to have a role in this as a health educator and to bring you 126 pages of our grandest issue yet. I hope you cherish it and will send all your friends to www.vibrancemagazine.com. Please send me your feedback and let me know if you can contribute in any way to the next issue.
Our fast-paced society has developed an insatiable appetite for mini-bytes—snippets of info about any and all news and twaddle by anyone who can use a keyboard. Homo fructus has devolved into a shut-in monkey-minded digital byte connoisseur, gobbling news flashes, tweets, trending gossip, opinions, tips and deals and, of course, a big daily dollop of spam.
At its worst, what does all this amount to? 1. info overload, i.e., digital toxemia; 2. scatter-mind syndrome; 3. intellectual degeneration (a.k.a. "the dumbing down of the world"); 4. EMF poisoning; 5. physical deterioration from lack of exercise in the great outdoors. At its best: 1. Instant access to info on any and all topics, such as esoterica like rawfoodism and natural healing; 2. political injustice exposure; 3. instant awareness of social and cultural revolution acts; 4. social unification; 5. logistical coordination for social group activism such as the Occupy movements.
With regard to the last "best" feature I listed, it was wonderful to see the Occupy Wall Street camp setting up stations with "slow food", i.e., fresh, organic produce, and then a branch of Occupy Oakland building an urban organic garden involving permaculture education and activism. Wouldn't it be wonderful if that branched off into Occupy the USFDA, Occupy Monsanto, Occupy the AMA, Occupy Congress and the like? Tweet–tweet–tweet—let's ignite the flames!
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Physiology 101:
The Basis of All Health Science
An Interview With Dr. Paul Fanny, President of the University and College of Natural Health, by Dr. David Klein
DK: Physiology is the basis for understanding and teaching health. I would say there are no medical, chiropractic, naturopathic schools or any other health schools that understand physiology within the context of human health. Their understanding is fragmented; they don't understand the workings of health, disease or human biological self-healing capacities. Self-healing is not even considered. Dietary toxins, examples of Hygienic healing and we Hygienic Doctors are ignored, and that's why most people are walking around this planet sick and getting sicker from all the treatments their doctors are giving them. Why do these intelligent folks misinterpret physiology in so many ways? Why can't they understand that the body is self-healing—nothing can heal the body but the body itself—and that is not only good enough, it is everything?
PF: Basically because they are all modeling the medical mentality, meaning that they are into treating symptoms without removing the causes of disease. It's always after the fact; health is never addressed before illness manifests. Humans tend to want to play God; they want to be the ones doing the curing. They don't really want to admit that the body has the wisdom and power to self-heal if allowed to do so.
DK: It's comforting to know that physiology in its correct context is the basis for all the courses that you offer at your colleges.
PF: Yes. Physiology entails every aspect of the human body, including the mind and emotions. All of the parts of the body affect one another.
DK: Almost 200 years ago Dr. Robert Walter and Sylvester Graham developed the "Laws of Life" which provided the basic physiological principles explaining the workings of the body in health and disease. I would venture to guess that there isn't one physiology textbook in the world, except for Dr. Herbert M. Shelton's and yours, that teaches those Laws. In fact, all modern physiology textbooks used at all medical and chiropractic schools mainly discuss physiology in the context of disease conditions; the conditions required for health and the picture of health are mostly absent from the teachings. Have you found the Laws of Life in any physiology textbook other than Shelton's?
PF: Not to my knowledge. I've written courses on Dr. Shelton, especially his physiology book, Human Life: Its Philosophy and Laws. In that master work he brought together all the great minds whose teachings were based on the laws of nature. Unfortunately, medical doctors, naturopaths and chiropractors do not understand the Laws of Life because they possess the medical mentality.
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Meet the Fruitarian
Video interview by Michael Arnstein
Thanks to Michael Arnstein, the cause of raw fruitarian health and fitness has soared to new levels in the USA and beyond. Fresh on the heels of the resoundingly successful First Annual Woodstock Fruit Festival (which he founded and co-directed), Michael was gracious enough to sit down for a self-recorded video interview, and to pose for the amazing cover shot taken in Manhattan after a shopping excursion with a Lamborghini.
Michael grew up eating fast food, public school lunches, candy and junk food like most American kids today. As a teen, he joined his school's cross-country running team, and his race to better health began. Soon he cut out animal based foods, fried foods, candy and other less than optimal athletic fuel. In his late twenties Michael became a vegan, and pursued his passion for running with new dedication.
After reading books authored by Dr. Douglas Graham, Dr. David Klein and Ann Osborne, Michael was on his way to a new life via a diet of raw fruits and vegetables. His athletic performances improved to levels he never thought possible, and he became an elite marathon and ultra-marathon runner, winning some of the most prestigious ultra marathon races in the United States. In Vibrance no. 5 we featured an article titled "A Fruitarian Marathon Runner's Quest for Peak Performance" detailing Micheal's amazing feat of placing 58th in the 2010 Boston marathon with a time of 2:28:29. We'll surely track his upcoming feats in future issues.
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by Victoria Arnstein
At the First Annual Woodstock Fruit Festival I encountered the most vibrant group of people I'd ever met! Created as a nonprofit and funded by my husband Michael Arnstein, it was held in a beautiful natural setting in upstate New York. It was intended for people from all around the world to gather and share in a celebration of our common lifestyle of eating fruits and veggies in their natural state, enjoying fitness, fun, relaxation and camaraderie, and, hopefully, spawning a plethora of future fruitarian communities.
Approximately 200 people from all over the world gathered to hear the pioneers speak about health, relate their experiences, and to meet many other like-minded people. Some were longtime health enthusiasts and had been on the low-fat, raw vegan path for as much as thirty years, and some were just starting out, still struggling and seeking inspiration. We were thrilled to see all of the one-dimensional faces (from photos) come to life in-person and greet everyone with hugs. The connections made are sure to be lifelong! There was a strong sense of community; all related as equals and supported one another.
The facility is on acres of land boasting beautiful trees with a lake that we really enjoyed. There was also a nice swimming pool for families. The WFF is very affordable, kid-friendly and offers the option of camping out or sleeping in a luxury room.
Compost was gathered hourly on the huge grounds of the beautiful retreat at Menla Mountain, owned by the Dalai Lama himself. There was a yoga retreat and two dining areas that were always occupied. There were various fitness classes every morning, and there was even a dance party at night in the barn. There were all-you-can-eat buffets including the delicacy durian, and all the ripest seasonal fruits and veggies—enough to make your taste buds sing!! It was a fruit lover's dream come true!
There was never a shortage of things to do. Several health lectures were held simultaneously. There were fitness classes at all levels, from yoga to running to intense weight-bearing exercises. The energy was high and there was even a running race—a 5k loop that was turned into a 50k for those who wanted to go the distance. It was a thrill to participate in that!
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Unearthing the Low-Fat Secrets of Sprouting
An interview with "The Father of Living Foods," Viktoras Kulvinskas, M.S. by David Klein, Ph.D.
It's a special treat to interview the living legend of living foods, my friend Viktoras Kulvinskas, on a subject which I believe many need to know: how to include nuts and seeds in our diet in a healthful manner without overdosing on fat.
Viktoras pioneered the inclusion of germinated seeds and nuts into rawfooders' diets beginning in the 1970s. At age 72, his sprout-rich-high-enzyme diet and other unique health practices have kept him at a high level of vitality, enabling him to remain active as a living foods health educator.
In our first interview. in Living Nutrition vol. 9 in the year 2000, Viktoras recounted the story of how he became a proponent of seed germination. While working on his still-popular Survival Into the 21st Century handbook, he was exploring the scientific reasons behind the great success he and Dr. Ann Wigmore had with their living foods program in Boston in the early 1970s at Hippocrates Health Institute.
Some who take the low-fat, raw, vegan diet to extremes, completely shunning seeds, nuts, avocado and coconut flesh because they have been suffering with poor digestion, enounter any or all of these problems:
• Emotional distress because they do not tolerate fatty foods well
• Protein deficiency
• Low weight
• Wrinkled skin and aged appearance
• Low sex drive
• Lack of energy
In all these cases, they would be wise to experiment with germinated seed and nut milks, salad dressings and patés.
DK: I am particularly interested in the great reduction of fat that results after just one day of germination. This greatly enhances digestibility while keeping us energized. Please talk about that.
VK: Raw seeds are very high in fat and very hard to digest. The enzymes in the seeds include a very high amount of lipase which, when activated by water, digest the fat, converting it to essential fatty acids and sugars. That is why after soaking and germination, the seeds develop a slightly sweet taste and their fattiness is almost undetectable.
Documented studies regarding seed germination are found in my book Sprout for the Love of Every Body – Nutritional Evaluation Of Sprouts And Grasses. I created this book because people believe that cooking is better than sprouting. I showed that the raw seeds and nuts are high-stress foods; they are toxic unless they are soaked, germinated and/or fermented.
All dry seeds go through a hydration process when soaked, which actives the hydrolytic enzymes. The concentration of individualized enzymes (lipase, amylase and protease) is a function of the composition of the raw fat starch and protein levels. With the higher starch levels in seeds, such as grains, there are also higher levels of amylase. Nuts and seeds such as sunflower average 60% fat and, hence, have very high amounts of lipase. The enzyme level increases 100-fold during the soaking process. Not only do the photolytic enzymes act on the protein, breaking it down to peptides, polypeptides and amino acids, but they also convert some of the protein into new specific enzymes (lipase, protease, amylase).
The lipase acting on the fat content of the seed converts the raw fat into essential fatty acids (some of which are washed away) as well as sugar, greatly reducing the fat content as the seeds mature—hence the seeds have a low fat taste and a slight sweetness. If you were to dehydrate seeds which were germinated 8 to 24 hours and chew them, almost no oil will be released—the product will appear to be virtually fat-free. Similarly, if you ran the germinated seeds through a machine which makes seed and nut butters or a wheatgrass juicer, the product would also appear to be devoid of oil.
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2012: The End of Earth Exploitation As We Know It?
by Don Weaver
There have been claims, since about 1979, that the ancient Mayan calendar indicated a world-transforming event in December of 2012. While the Mayans may have had a relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy and other scientific arts, and I think it is conceivable they had some capacity to "prophesize" the future, I find it difficult to give much credence to the projections of this society, or any other blatantly patriarchal and often violent society dominated by "priest-kings" and their methods of exploiting the "common" people. They also most likely extended their domination to the over-exploitation of the environment. This, as with many extinct or decimated cultures, may have directly led to the "fall" of their so-called empire.
I suggest that if the Mayans' calendar system had truly been accurate, it would have predicted and prevented their own downfall. I do not think that we need their calendar to understand the serious problems we've created for ourselves, nor to see how to solve them! We've forcefully continued and expanded a lot of the practices that contributed to the collapse of the Mayan civilization, such as warring against each other and the environment, in our rush to extract as much "wealth" as we possibly can from the natural world, while exploiting cheap human labor.
We, too, are bringing on massive climate changes of all kinds, including worsening droughts, floods, freezes, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, record heat and cold. "Global warming" is a very questionable term, especially when many scientists know we're at the natural end of an interglacial period. As a student of eco-climatic change since 1977, when I first read eco-genius John Hamaker's writings, it is clear that "global warping" is a much more accurate term for the worldwide climate changes in progress. As Hamaker and I first documented in The Survival of Civilization, these changes are caused primarily by our failure to remineralize the world's soils, thus allowing the soil and vegetation to sicken and die from demineralization. Another factor is the tremendous over-exploitation over the last 100+ years of so-called modern scientific agriculture, which has largely been a process of more efficient soil mining and depletion. When this happens, of course, the carbon stores in soil and vegetation are increasingly transferred into the atmosphere, upsetting the eco-climatic balance. Unless this is turned around, "all hell on Earth" can break loose.
I am certain that by the year 2012, we can stop our dead-end habit of endlessly taking from Nature and start giving back more. We can and must do it quickly! We can become the consciously generous species on Earth by remineralizing the soils, re-greening the land with billions of trees (including fruit and nut trees), treating ourselves and other people and animals with compassion and respect, and shifting rapidly to non-fossil and non-nuclear energy sources like biomass and solar to power a green, conserver and "regenerator" society.
There is much we each can do to contribute to this transformational process. If you find yourself short of ideas and inspirations, my past articles and books give many specific suggestions, but search deeply for the abundance of creative, regenerative ideas waiting for expression through you! And perhaps the best news of all is we can start TODAY in creating personal/planetary health! You can mark that down on your calendar.
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Creating Financial & Spiritual Abundance
by Kim Caldwell
Alright, so you are interested in abundance—smart person! You are reading this now because you are becoming conscious and ready to make a shift in your abundance on all levels—mentally, physically and spiritually. This is done by simply connecting to the part of you that is Divine. My dominant intent here is to remind you of how brilliant and powerful you are, and to help you take full responsibility for your life. The path to our well-being is always calling us. We will, through lifting our thoughts, consciously connect with our Divinity, which holds the answers we seek. I want to be clear: You are perfect—we are simply building on where we are. Most of the ideas presented here will feel very familiar: "Oh yes, I knew that, I just needed a reminder."
True abundance is about having all the vitality, love and wealth we desire. It is also about peace of mind and loving life.We are each a miracle, and the connection to our personal God is where our power lies. You may call this God, Jesus, Buddha, your higher self or any name you like. It is not possible or necessary to explain the unexplainable. The important thing is the connection to our Divine Power. For our purposes, we will be using the term "God" and/or the word "Divine" to describe this energy.
In my book, Activate Your Abundance, you will also discover a 44-day program designed to support you in realizing the blessedness of your true nature. We will do the Divine meditations in this book before bed each night to lift our minds on a consistent basis. You may also find audios of these meditations that were created for your listening pleasure at www.togetherpublishing.com. As part of our program, we also intend to spend time each day reading about the blessings in our lives and writing out our fondest desires.
These activities done together on a consistent, personal basis will create joy in our mindset and set the stage for blessings to flow into every area of our life. Now is the time to start seeing yourself as you really are: a vibrating center of vitality and prosperity. "Abundance consciousness" is where all our power lies. The saying "as above, so below" explains this. We must first feel prosperous within, to clear the way for the manifestation of love and abundance.
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Building Muscles On A Raw Vegan Diet – Really?
by Charlie Abel
Can you really build muscle by lifting weights on a raw vegan diet? That's the second most frequent question I'm asked. The answer is, "there's no reason why you can't lift weights and build muscle on a raw vegan diet, and there are many benefits in doing so."
On a raw vegan diet, your muscles are still there, of course. You use them every day to walk, run and lift things. You can increase their size and strength if you know how.
It seems people assume that in the absence of consuming milk, meat or eggs, protein must be lacking, and that isn't true at all. This assumption indicates that the questioner is uninformed about nutrition, but you won't get anywhere telling them that!
When we eat a raw vegan diet we can avoid the negative effects of cooking food. In their complexity, protein molecules are known as "macromolecules" which are damaged when heated. Their chemical structure changes, making them less usable by the body; they become less digestible in proportion to the amount of heat used in cooking. So, if your friend thinks that you're not getting any protein because you won't eat a steak, you could tell him that you adopted the raw vegan diet to get more protein, since the heat of cooking makes it less usable. As your friend eats his steak, you might ask him where he gets his protein!
Since fruits make up a large portion of a proper raw vegan diet, it's also good to know that the protein content of ripe fresh fruits (and vegetables) is actually in the simple form of amino acids, which are much easier to digest than the larger macro protein molecules in meat and dairy products. Thus, a raw vegan diet really does supply adequate protein for building muscles. It will not cause the health problems animal proteins do; and it is easy to digest, allowing your body to conserve energy from digestion and instead use that energy to recover from your demanding muscle building workouts.
What exactly makes muscles grow? Hard work! You have to get out of your comfort zone. The harder you work the muscles, the bigger and stronger they will grow.
We have to do this properly, and the key word is "gradual." You incrementally build up to hard work according to your ability.
If you've never strength trained before, merely exercising your muscles with relatively easy resistance exercise is harder work than you're used to, and will induce your muscles to grow. Some of them, anyway. And this may be enough for some people, but if you want bigger muscles, then you need to make the exercises harder.
To make the exercise harder, you increase the amount of weight (resistance) used for your exercises. This fatigues your muscles down to a low point, and this stimulates your body to go ahead and build bigger muscles. As you grow stronger, this becomes tougher and tougher to do because you will find that on a raw vegan diet, your body will adapt very quickly. This may be the result of the increased availability of protein, through avoidance of heat cooking.
Starting out, I'd recommend a full body workout, on three non-consecutive days of the week, such as Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Start with light, easy weights, and increase the resistance gradually.
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Fit Is Fantastic!
by Freelee
I love to look and feel my best, and am prepared to do what it takes to achieve that. A lot of people think I do a marathon everyday to stay slim and fit but this is a total myth! Consistency in diet and exercise is the key to maintaining the high-level health that I currently experience.
I love jogging; this makes up the bulk of my exercise routine. Every day or every other day I will be jogging. On average, I jog between 20 and 100 minutes per day. I make sure I mix up the sessions to "keep my body guessing" and to avoid getting stuck on plateaus. I incorporate running races at least once a month, and sometimes 5km races as often as twice a week. Running races has really accelerated my positive results on a high carb raw vegan lifestyle. My running time (in minutes) has gone from the high twenties to 21:05 on this lifestyle. Running races is good because it stimulates the body in ways that aren't possible with normal training. It is also a great social environment where I've met a lot of new fit friends. I recommend that everyone sign up for at least one running race, even if you just go and walk it. We become like the people we associate with, so it's important to surround ourselves with fit, healthy, positive people.
My goal is to incorporate more yoga this year because I really love it and the results are fantastic! My flexibility is excellent on a high carb raw vegan lifestyle, but with the inclusion of yoga, it is phenomenal! Not only that, but nothing sculpts my bodymind like yoga. Vigorous ashtanga yoga is my favorite flow. Aside from jogging and occasional yoga, I also do cycling about once a week.
I consume around 3000 calories per day from fruit, with the addition of greens every few days. I am currently holidaying in New York City and I have to say the greens here are so much better than in Australia. I eat greens when I feel the need for them and, honestly, that isn't very often, but when I do, I enjoy them. I'm more of a sweet girl though and have no problem putting away 30 bananas in one day. Actually, 50 bananas in one-day is my record. Generally, my meals run over 1,000 calories. That could be, for example, a 10-banana smoothie or two quarts of orange juice.
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The Path of Healing My Body and Soul:
Rheumatoid Arthritis Conquered the Natural Way
by Quinny Chiang
Life is very strange sometimes and I have had to walk this long and winding self-healing path to make it mine. I was struggling with many aspects of my life for quite some years and I've tried many things just to find my way out of the forest.
A turning point came one day in the dead of winter in 2007, when I was 38, 12 years after I moved from Hong Kong to Toronto. I got a stabbing pain in my lower back, and despite all the treatments I underwent within the next 18 months, the pain spread out to my entire body. At times, walking was very difficult, even if I took it very, very slowly. The pain was unbearable. After lying down at night, I was unable to get up again without assistance. I also could not move or turn in bed. Sleeping was like torture, because my entire body was in pain; every tiny little movement would wake me up. I was extremely tired and depressed.
Eventually this tiredness turned into chronic fatigue syndrome. I would literally fall asleep during a conversation. Sometimes this could be very dangerous. Because my neck was almost fused together, I had very limited range of motion. I could neither turn my head side-to-side nor up and down. I had to turn my whole body to look for cars when I needed to cross the roads. The nerves of my wrists were so inflamed, my fingers were numb 24/7. I could not open doors, bottles or jars of foods because I didn't have the strength to grip. When my knees were in trouble, I relied on my arms to pull myself up and down stairs. Ironically, being still was just as painful as when I was mobile. That period was the darkest two years of my life.
No one knew what was wrong with me. I went to all kinds of health professionals and spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on treatments and supplements, with little success. I was also given medications I disliked taking, that had heavy side effects. My MD said that the pain was either musculoskeletal or it was all in my head. My chiropractor thought it was caused by improper posture and the stress from work. My physiotherapist told me to change my chair, my pillow and my mattress. Such comments made me just want to cry. No one mentioned anything about diet.
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Vibrance Cuisine
Layered Fruit Dessert with Mango Sorbet
by Christina Chadney
Serves 6
- 3/4 pineapple
- 4 mangoes
- 2-4 oranges
- 1 pint strawberries
- 4-6 kiwis
- 24 oz. frozen mango, softened juice of 1 lime
Slice all the fruit about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Process the softened frozen mango and lime juice in a food processor until it's a smooth, thick sorbet. Layer all the fruit and the sorbet in order of your preference in a glass serving bowl. Alternately, you can juice the oranges (blended with a bit of fresh mint if preferred) and drizzle over the top of fruit layers. Garnish with fresh mint.
Raw Lasagna
by Ellen Livingston
Serves 6-10
- 4 med. zucchini
- 8 oz. walnuts
- 3-4 cups baby spinach
- 5 med. tomatoes
- 3 oz. dried tomatoes, soaked a few hours
- 1/4 head of cauliflower
- 1 red bell pepper
- a few leaves of fresh basil
The Sauce
Blend 3 of the tomatoes, the red bell pepper and the cauliflower. Add about 1/2 of the sundried tomatoes, and blend until smooth. Pulse in a few basil leaves, to taste.
The Layers
Cover the bottom of a rectangular pan with a single layer of thin, long zucchini slices (a Cai Bao or Mandoline works well for this). Cover this with a layer of tomato slices (save a few slices for a final garnish), then a thin layer of whole or chopped walnuts. Cover with another layer of zucchini strips, then one-half of the sauce. Now make a layer from the remaining soaked sundried tomatoes and the baby spinach. Cover this with a third and final layer of zucchini strips. Top with sauce and garnish with fresh tomato slices, finely diced basil and a few chopped walnuts.
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Mango Love
by Ken Love
Sitting on the plane from Hawaii to Miami, I can't help but ponder on the mangos I'll be able to taste in the coming week. We have close to 200 mango varieties reported in Hawaii but I've only tried 60 so far.
I'm headed to the 19th annual Fairchild National Tropical Botanical Garden Mango Festival; Hawaiian mangos will be featured. I've just returned from sampling a fair number of Indian mangos at the fruit market in Bangladore. I also sampled Thai, Aussie, Taiwanese and Japanese mangos and now I'm heading home to enjoy our own mangos. I'm ready to throw in the towel, so to speak. And yes, it's covered in mango juice.
In the past month I've tasted at least 100 types of mangos, and overall I've detected subtle as well as very distinct differences in flavor and sugar content. It's difficult to describe the taste differences. I can say that the Thai Nom doc mai is sweeter than Hayden or that our Golden Glow is much more "coconutty" than Alphonso or that the turpentiney Aussie Kensington is much more pleasant to me than Excel. Oh, that towel I mentioned is stained with the juice from the Ah Ping mango—maybe it's a little bit too much of a good thing.
Arriving in Miami in the rain, I can only imagine how the mix of hot, dry then wet weather assists the mangos to thrive here.
It's now two weeks later and the Fairchild mango festival was an experience I'll not forget. It presented daylong events including a wide variety of music, fashion & crafts as well as horticultural lectures. The side-by-side layout made it much easier to compare the 100 types of mangos. The problem is how do you compare great and great? There is no such thing as a bad mango—only different ones.
Tastes range from the commonly referred to turpentine acidic taste to a melt-in-your-mouth sweet coconut flavor, and everything in between. Originating in India, the word mango comes from the Malayalam word "manna" via the Portuguese who called it "manga."
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The Zen Of Cleaning Your Juicer: A Larger Lesson For Life
by David Klein, Ph.D., H.D.
Some clients ask me to recommend a good juicer that's easy to clean. I usually reply with an empathetic chuckle: "I like my Champion best. They all take more time and effort to clean than we want, but cleaning your juicer need not be a chore. I've learned to make the experience effortless by placing part of my awareness on other things. I just relax into the experience, think pleasant thoughts and gaze outside the window a few times. In this way, the juicer gets cleaned in 'a jiffy.' Nothing to it.'"
Wouldn't that feel nice? No wear or tear—voila, in 60 to 120 seconds the juicer is clean and you are in no way drained by the effort. Perhaps you can try that and think about how good your juice will taste.
Or, perhaps you are thinking, "Nope, that's not going to happen." OK, then please read on....
Unless you are disabled, is cleaning your juicer really difficult? Is it so terrible to have to devote one to two minutes to the removal of fruit or vegetable pulp from the machine parts? Is the fruit and vegetable waste really anything different than the food you enjoy?
What story does your mind tell about cleaning your juicer? What is your dominant belief about the task? Is the belief really true? Does it help you or is it just another negative piece of script in a large catalog of thought-forms that often make your life miserable? Don't you want to delete that huge cache of mental crap?
If you go into your juicer cleaning process with the belief "this is hard," then your experience will be one of mind-body spiritual disharmony.
Rather than allow a preconceived negative judgment to occupy your mind, become still, present and awaken to the grandeur of "what is" in the "here and now." What is here and now? Everything you desire to be aware of and experience!
If you want to see beauty, it's there—be present and choose to see it and don't judge anything—simply observe and be embodied in the experience as you mindfully clean the juicer. This may sound far-fetched, but the act of cleaning can be as delicious as the juice itself.
Instead of researching the easiest juicers to clean or debating whether we should even make juices at all, let's explore the workings of the mind and the reasons why we define tasks as either tedious (negative), easy or pleasurable (positive). Let's try to uncover the origin of the belief that cleaning your juicer is such a detestable "pain in the arse."
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The Yogi's Secrets to Optimal Well Being
by Steven S. Sadleir
Something inside you, a subtle energy, is making you tick as it flows through your nervous system. We take in energy from our environment (sun, earth, people) through the food we eat, the water we drink and through the air we breathe. For good health and well-being, we need to learn how to use this to support and sustain our own energy. Some connection with the sun is important; you need to feel the rays on your skin. Of course, moderation and balance is important. Your skin will tell you when it's had enough. You need to connect with earth and the elements of the earth drawn from living plants in order to absorb their live force as well as their nutrients. You need to feel and express emotions and interact with people; you need to receive and express love every day, for your well-being.
You need to stay hydrated and alkaline; eating a natural diet creates the optimal pH balance. Then, the energy you take in through the air you breathe can be assimilated and distributed throughout your body. There are magnetic fields around the earth which can be detected with a compass, and when you take in oxygen, your body absorbs and distributes this life force. With increased life force, there is increased regeneration, vitality and well-being.
In order to experience this, you only have to connect with the life force and spirit that you are. One way to quickly align with this innate intelligence is to focus your attention on the point between your eyebrows—your third eye—in meditation. This has the effect of not only creating a relaxation response that reduces stress, but, more importantly, it enables you to consciously engage your own spirit. Meditating on the Third Eye plugs you into Source Energy within you, the very consciousness that you are. You begin to realize your true being. You are this Source. The more self-realized you are the happier you are. True happiness and peace come from within...as you know.
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Health Head Scratchers
Compiled by David Klein, Ph.D.
From Nuts Among the Berries by Ronald M. Deutsch (1961).
"In the early 1800s, the care of obstetrical cases and of infants was left to the relatively untrained. In about 1800, a London physician named Dr. Cadogan wrote: 'A general practice is, as soon as a child is born, to cram a dab of butter and sugar down its throat . . . a little oil . . . or some unwholesome mess . . .'"
"In the second century before Christ, Marcus Porcius Cato, better known as Cato the Elder, became enthralled by cabbages. The famed Roman censor thought man could survive on a diet of nothing but cabbages. On his farm near the city of Rome he grew them assiduously and fed them to anyone who was ill with absolutely anything."
"In 1632 the first banana was displayed in London by a grocer. This caused heated arguments. Pharmacists maintained the fruit was a deadly drug and should be sold only by trained druggists."
"The diet of the average man was studied scientifically by nutrition expert W.A. Atwater. He carefully studied the eating habits of the nation. He drew averages, graphs, calculated, analyzed and finally came up with a statement. Finding what the average American consumed, he issued papers giving the average as the ideal diet. His associate, C.F. Langworthy, analyzed still further and projected man's food need. In 1892 he expressed it as this ratio: one part protein, one part carbohydrate and two and one-half parts fat. And business boomed again in Battle Creek. If there was anything wrong with the diet, experts guessed, it was probably that the proportion of protein was too high. A number of them urged a reduction in protein and increased carbohydrates. Dr. Kellogg jumped on the bandwagon. It fit the vegetarian scheme nicely. "
"Meanwhile, the adulteration of foods continued. The first state food law was passed in Illinois in 1874. In 1881 New York and New Jersey joined in. But those laws were weak and enforcement was feeble. Since the rotting of food was such a key health and economic problem, the manufacturers took steps to solve it. They began to dump preservatives into the cooking kettles. It was hardly their responsibility to find out what their customers' bodies would tolerate. They used boric acid, borax, benzoic acid, bezoates and the deadly, caustic carbolic acid."
"They soon found that these chemicals had still another use. Sloshing them on foods which were already somewhat decayed stopped the decay and often made the stuff look good enough to sell. Then they canned the whole mess and shipped it out."
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