The Superbeing System

Can the Miracle Man Help You?

2007-04-04T16:14:00.000-04:00

The Mircale Man is truly an inspirational person.

You can read all about his incredible story here.

http://roger-haeske.blogspot.com/2007/03/miracle-man-shames-most-of-us-by.html

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

The Original Ecover

2006-09-11T18:40:00.000-04:00

Was talking to people on my HowToGoRaw.com forum and showing them this new ebook cover. But they couldn't see some of the lettering. I explained that I didn't upload the original document because it's filesize was too large.

But I'm going to do it here with just the front cover or a 2D version. Look at this image and the one below. To make graphics more practical for people with dialup modems the quality of the image has to be compromised a bit.

New Bonus For The Lightning Speed Fitness Program

2006-09-11T02:12:00.000-04:00

I've put together a detailed FAQ for bodyweight fitness. It will soon be available for current and new customers of the Lightning Speed Fitness Program.

Most Important Movie You Can See

2006-09-09T03:30:00.000-04:00

Hi Folks,

I've seen this movie in the theaters several times. Now it's online and free.

Let me know what you think.

America Freedom To Fascism
By Aaron Russo

http://www.truthstream.org/?p=212

Roger

What foods cause depression?

2006-09-08T02:34:00.000-04:00

Do you know what I did to heal 6.5 years of depression in one day?

Below is a question I that comes up often from people new to a raw food diet. In my response, you'll see the easy change I made to overcome the worst years of my life.

Question: What portion of the diet do you recommend should be raw to start seeing some of these benefits?

Answer: This is a great question. I benefited immensely by about a 50% raw food diet. By just eating that way, I overcame 6.5 years of depression and panic attacks in just one day.

Yes in one day. My life dramatically improved by going 50% raw. All I did was have only raw fruits for breakfast and a smoothie and a salad the rest of the day. In between, I often ate cooked food, so that is why it was only 50% raw. Dinners were mostly cooked as well.

Later on I discovered the higher percentage of my diet that was raw, the happier and healthier I felt and the more benefits I experienced. Overcoming depression is a major benefit. But all the best and multiple benefits of going raw can only be achieved by going completely raw.

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** So the answer to my subject line: What foods cause depression?

In my case, cooked foods. This is true of many other raw foodists I've met and worked with. They generally feel so much happier and life is easier to handle by going raw.

Don't you think that is the best reason for going raw? Everyone wants to be happy and you'll be happiest if you give up cooked food addiction.

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However, I also think the question asked comes from a misunderstanding that most people have. It's a backward sense of thinking because most people have been eating in a very unhealthy way their whole lives. The whole concept of eating for most people is based on traditional but extremely unhealthy ideas.

Even most health nuts eat a very toxic and carcinogenic diet. Yet they believe they are eating healthy. They may be compared to the Standard Western Diet, but compared to a 100% raw food diet, they are really suffering.

There are no safe cooked foods. This opinion is based on scientific research, my results, the results of my raw food coaching clients and friends. There is no healthy diet unless it is all raw.

However, there certainly are degrees of healthy. There are even some partially cooked diets that I believe are healthier than a very high fat, raw food diet.

** How Much Smoking Is Safe?

It's similar to asking how much can you smoke before you get cancer. The right answer is to simply not smoke at all and never get addicted to smoking in the first place.

If you're not addicted, then you won't even think of smoking or ever want to do it if you value your health. The exact same thing applies to cooked foods.

Eating cooked food is at least as unhealthy as smoking and I believe it is actually far more dangerous than smoking. Eating cooked and processed foods causes many more diseases than smoking ever will.

Here's a quote from waisays.com. When she says prepared food, she means cooked and processed foods.

"Cigarette smoke contains physically addictive beta-carbolines, and so does prepared food. And extra addictive substances are added to cigarettes, as well as to food products too; when you quit smoking, the loss of addictive substances from cigarettes is compensated by consuming more prepared food, making you gain weight.

Cigarette smoke contains mutagenic heterocyclic amines, and so does prepared food.

Cigarettes can be lethal, but prepared food is even more lethal, because it is absorbed in greater quantities."

I don't agree with all her conclusions or diet recommendations, but you'll be able to see why eating cooked food is at least as dangerous as smoking. The article on her site explains this in much more detail.

Our natural diet is always going to be 100% raw. We can get some great benefits even without going 100% raw, but I just can't recommend anything less than 100% because you'd be cheating yourself out of the life you deserve to live.

The only way to overcome your addiction to cooked food is to eat only raw food. As long as you continue to eat cooked food, you'll continue to be addicted to it.

It's like alcoholics are told, you can't just have one more drink. One drink can quickly lead to full blown alcoholism. The same thing applies to eating cooked food and trust me it works just like a drug.

So my suggestion is to gradually increase the percentage of raw fruits and vegetables in your diet. With the goal of some day never eating cooked food again.

My raw food coaching and support website http://HowToGoRaw.com helps people to quickly and easily overcome their cooked food addiction. It's much easier when you know the psychological and dietary secrets to raw food success.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

No One Would Die Of Cancer If The FDA & AMA Didn't Exist

2006-08-28T00:48:00.000-04:00

Hi Folks,

I have a fantastic read for you. Go to this link:

http://health.benabraham.com/html/fountain_of_youth_-_nature_s_h.html

Then if you find that interesting, I consider you get the whole book. I'm not making a dime off of this. I just think this is very important information for people to know.

You can't trust the medical establishment to take care of you in the United States. They are in the stone ages and are purposely killing people for profits and maybe even other reasons.

Please go to this link, it could change your life. It could also save your life and that of close friends and family members. Do you realize there is something you can take after a stroke that reduces stroke damage to almost nothing? There's so much to learn.

http://health.benabraham.com/html/fountain_of_youth_-_nature_s_h.html

Roger

Beethoven and Superman to the Rescue

2006-04-14T18:42:00.000-04:00

"How to Beat Your Personal Bests, with the Help of Beethoven and Superman"

Do you want to be inspired every day of your life? Do you want to experience the greatest joy ever and breakthrough to peak performance levels in everything you do?

I've got a quick and easy technique that will make it easy for you to set personal fitness, life and business bests.

Here's what I've been doing. Just before I start my Lightning Speed Fitness Program Workout http://LightningSpeedFitness.com, I put on the theme song to Superman the Movie. This was the first movie with Christopher Reeve.

A few years ago I watched Superman again. That is when I gained an appreciation of the Superman music.

When it got to the point in the movie where Clark Kent went to the North Pole and created his Fortress of Solitude, it was one of the most amazing emotional experiences I've had. More precisely, it was when he left his Fortress of Solitude, after many years of training, by his father.

Up until this time, he didn't know how to fly. He had all sorts of superpowers but he still didn't fly. But then the music changed, it lowered and then built to a stunning crescendo. His training was over and he flew out of his Fortress of Solitude, with his Superman uniform (for the first time) as a powerful Superbeing with a mission to save and protect the Earth.

There was something incredibly serious and magical about that moment. Clark had transformed from an uncertain teenager to Superman with the training he received at his fortress.

Every time I hear this music now, I can instantly recreate that same emotional feeling. Just writing about this was so powerful that I started crying tears of joy.

When I first really listened to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, I also cried tears of joy. I was completely floored and couldn't believe how good that music was. At the time, I didn't even listen to classical music.

Then hearing it live in concert was emotionally breathtaking. When I hear it, I think Beethoven was somehow talking about God and accurately describing God through his music. It's incredibly powerful and almost always moves me to tears.

I'm sure you already know what music motivates you. So go ahead and use it. This past week I set three personal bests in my workouts when I used the Superman theme.

I'm actually stronger, by far, when I listen to this music. Even if I just listen to it in my head. Anything along these themes creates powerful energy for me. I also love the Star Wars theme song. Notice these are all classical pieces.

Sometimes it's just seeing a great movie. But it's always some kind of movie that resonates most with my spiritual mission in life. I remember about ten years ago coming home after seeing such a movie and I went out to do a heavy hands workout. I totally blew away my previous best time by 50 seconds. It was incredible.

I was on the most incredible high. In fact, I'm on this high as I write to you. No need for drugs when you eat raw and know how to inspire yourself.

When you're so inspired, it seems to take you almost out of your physical body and you don't feel as much pain. It's easier to break through plateaus.

The other thing that is great, that it really motivates you to work. When I get inspired and I start working on a project, I don't even want to sleep. I'd prefer working all night long until I get it done.

This feeling is more powerful than any amount of money could ever buy you.

The great news is that anyone can feel this power and use it to succeed in life. It doesn't matter where you are or how much money you have. Because everyone has been blessed by being born a divine being. Your very existence means you've inherited God's blessings and power.

No, you are not God, but you have unlimited potential and are a divine atom in the body of God. You have unlimited room for spiritual expansion and expression.

The only thing I know of that can hold you back, are your own beliefs and attitudes and if you are experiencing depression. For 6.5 years I wasn't able to have experiences like this. My spiritual awareness was severely closed off. I was in a constant state of emotional pain and fear.

Only eating raw saved the day. Now I can easily tune into the Force and have great day after great day.

If you want to experience the same, then I invite you to join How To Go Raw.com. Because not only will I coach you in succeeding at a raw food diet, you also get full access to my Lightning Speed Fitness Program included.

http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Which Common, No-Equipment Exercise, Can Give You Explosive Speed, Marathon Endurance And Sculpted Muscular Legs, That You Can Do While Watching TV?

http://www.howtogoraw.com/fitness.html for more info.

Woman Conquers Candida & Defeats Depression

2006-04-10T16:10:00.000-04:00

*** Superbeing Secrets ***
Raw Food, Fitness & Self-Mastery

"Woman Defeats Depression, Candida, Chronic Fatigue and Adrenal Fatigue With The Perfect Health Program"

I have two things I want to share with you today. First, I realize that up to 40% of my Superbeing Secrets Subscribers have not been receiving my newsletters. So I've put up the last four issues for you to read at my blog.

http://superbeingsystem.blogspot.com/

I'm also experimenting with a new mailing system to deliver the newsletter to you. Now everyone will get the chance to read the dynamic life and health changing information I share with you on a weekly basis.

This system has many cool features that will be useful to not only me, but you as well. You'll even be able to see an archive of all the past issues and much more.

Next, I want to say thank you and congratulations to all the people who have ordered The Perfect Health Program and the bonus three-month subscription to HowToGoRaw.com through my special offer.

Below I'm including the inspiring story of Sandra Dwan. Her health improved dramatically within just a few days of following The Perfect Health Program. Sandra is also a member of How To Go Raw.com.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

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From: Sandra Dwan

"The Information in This Program is Priceless"

Hi Roger~

I just wanted you to know I did the Perfect Health Program with Frederic and Dr. Graham last summer when it was live. I can't tell you how much it changed my life.

I was 100% raw most of the time but suffering from adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue, chronic candida and all the depression that goes along with those things. I couldn't figure out what was going wrong.

I was searching for health when all along it was staring me in the face. I thought maybe I was cleansing too fast or that maybe I needed to cleanse more.

I had some great fantastic days then followed by horrible days where I was moody and just plain exhausted. I couldn't exercise. I didn't want to even see the sun.

I sat and read books upon books looking for something that would improve my state of being. This is when the Perfect Health Program crossed my path.

Normally I never would have spent even close to the amount of money it cost to participate. BUT I was desperate and so I found the money. Man, was it the best money I ever spent in my life :o)

Within days all my health problems disappeared! The information in the program is priceless. It changed my life, my health and my happiness!

Many of the things Dr. Graham spoke of were very new to me. Others were basic knowledge but I needed to hear it from his mouth over and over. It has been 9 months since I took the program and I still hear his voice in my head encouraging me to make the right choices throughout my day.

It is an amazing program. I am so glad you are offering this program. Everyone needs to hear his message!

Sandra Dwan

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After I received Sandra's unsolicited testimonial I asked her to give me even more detail. I wanted to know what kind of raw food diet she was eating, that was giving her these terrible health problems. Here is what she told me.

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I never dreamed I would spend that much money on a program. But I hope everyone will consider it regardless of the price because it is worth every penny. It has saved me a lot of money in the long run~probably, money I might have spent on supplements or cleanses trying to feel better.

I was doing a lot of things wrong at the time. I was not eating enough fruit (hesitant because of the candida). I was not getting enough greens (I focused more on vegetables, eating many I did not even care for), I was eating too much fat (consuming at least 1 avocado per day which I don't like, oil and nuts ~which I am allergic to, way too much salt, nama shoyu, bragg's liquid aminos, etc.).

I am a tall, skinny girl and felt I needed the "healthy" fat. When I initially changed my diet (before raw) I lost some weight. This is a little scary for those who don't GET it! I knew I was on the right path in spite of those who thought I was anorexic and needed to see a psych.

And then of course battling the chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue and depression didn't help. What I needed was a good coach NOT a psych. Because of the adrenal fatigue it was easy for me to stay up really late and then drag all day. I was not sleeping properly. Because of the fatigue and depression I didn't go out much, therefore very little sunshine.

I would go from the bed to the kitchen and make my morning smoothie or avocado applesauce which generally had some nuts in it. Then back to the couch to read some health book. That is where I stayed most of the day. My first son was 2 and I was pregnant with my second. So I got very little exercise.

I learned about the Tibetian rites somewhere during my pregnancy and started slow on those but rarely got the 21 reps in. I also did a pregnancy yoga tape on my good days. I never paid any attention to food combining but didn't eat a lot of dehydrated foods because I didn't have a dehydrator.

My key to success is now low-fat, get sleep, get sunshine, get exercise, eat tons of greens (which is a huge deal to me~even being 100% raw low fat vegan isn't enough~I need LOTS of greens) Greens change my mood and feeling of well-being within a half hour after eating. Apples seem to balance me as well.

I have some kind of issues with sluggish lymph flow and eating increased fat instantly almost paralyzes me. I get nodules on the back of my neck in my lymph nodes. I get true muscle fatigue.

Just climbing the stairs hurts. My muscles feel like I had ran a marathon the day before. Exercise and skin brushing help get things moving again even though when this happens all I want to do is lay around. I have to fight it!

Anyway I learned the importance of all these things from Dr. Graham's Perfect Health Program. I learned the cure for my ongoing battle I had with candida. I even run a yahoo group and have for a couple years on candida. I really changed my belief system of how the body works~ natural hygiene type beliefs now.

I have thrown out all my supplements (enzymes, probiotics, etc). I had read numerous raw books but nothing impacted me the way Dr. Graham's lectures did. It was perfect timing for me. I needed to hear what he had to say!

By the way~ I love your interview with Rozalin Gruben from How To Go Raw.com. I have it in my iTunes and listen to it often. So.... as bad as this all sounds, it was a drastic improvement to my life before raw.

Otherwise I might not have stuck with it. My pregnancy also was much much better than the first. And the birth was amazing. So I was doing some things right. I just didn't see the whole picture.

I think the BIGGEST gift I got from Dr. Graham's program was the peace that I now knew how to live. I didn't need to buy every book that came along and stay up all night reading it from cover to cover searching for that one thing that would make a difference.

I had received the information I needed. God knew I was ready for it and gave it to me at the right place and the right time. His ways are perfect and He has healed me by showing me the steps I needed to take, one at a time when I could do it~no sooner, no later.

Sandy

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Isn't Sandy's transformation amazing? What an inspiring story. If you want to improve your life like Sandy did, then I urge you to take a look at The Perfect Health Program.

Here's all you have to do to get the program and my special gift to you. I'm giving away this special gift because I want you experience the results that Sandy and many others, including myself have experienced from the wisdom of Dr. Graham.

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This coaching will be in the way of a free three-month membership at my raw food coaching and education website, How To Go Raw.com. You can find out more about it and what you'll be getting, by visiting this link.

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*** Please Act Quickly - There Is A Deadline ***

There's one final thing. I want you to take action on this offer quickly. If you dilly-dally you may forget and never take action. Therefore, I will remove this special offer when the first 50 people take advantage of it or at the end of April, whichever comes first.

It's time to take action and step into a new life. Use this link to start your new life and become the best you. You'll unleash the Superbeing within by eating an Optimal Raw Food Diet and following the other healthy lifestyle practices you'll learn from Dr. Graham.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Science Proves Cooked Food Carcinogenic

2006-04-08T16:23:00.000-04:00

I think some people really don't yet believe
that cooked food is dangerous to their health.
They want scientific proof. Actually, there's
loads of scientific proof, if you want to find
it. Most nutritionists simply ignore the
evidence, because they believe cooking to be a
normal and healthy process. But lets not confuse
normal with healthy.

Today I'm going to share with you some notes I
took from Dr. Graham's Perfect Health Program CD
number one. You are going to learn exactly how
cooking damages, deranges and destroys nutrients
and creates carcinogens and toxins.

These notes are from track 20 out of 24 of the
first CD called, "A Diet That Works." This
information packed CD alone, is 74 minutes long
and there are 11 other CD's in the system. I wish
I had this program when I first went raw in 1996,
I wouldn't have failed so many times at going raw.

I'm offering a special bonus to you if you get
this program through this link:

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

You can read more about it at the bottom of this
issue of Superbeing Secrets.

** How Cooking Destroys Nutrients and Therefore
Your Health **

(I'm going to give you snippets of information.
It's not going to read exactly like an article.
Just a collection of quotes from Dr. Douglas
Graham. Plus I add some information as well.)

* Nutrients are lost, damaged, deranged or
destroyed by the cooking process.

* Here's an argument I hear all the time. Some
foods can only be consumed if they are cooked:

Dr. Graham's reply: This is nature's explanation
about the types of foods we shouldn't be eating.
If we have to cook a food in order to be able to
eat it, then it's not a food intended for human
consumption in the first place. We've survived
99.9% of human history without eating cooked foods.

(My Note: Dr. Graham had a detailed explanation
earlier in the CD of how long humans have been
eating cooked food versus raw food.)

* What happens to proteins when they are cooked?

Dr. Graham: Proteins are denatured by the
heating process. Heating creates enzyme resistant
bonds in the protein molecule. This means that
protein damaged by cooking can't be completely
broken down into its smaller constituent parts or
amino acids.

(Roger's comments: The human body can't use
protein anyway. It can only use the building
blocks of protein or amino acids. All proteins
must first be broken down into amino acids before
they can be used.)

These bigger pieces of protein are recognized as
attackers to the human body. This is why you see
a white blood cell explosion after the
consumption of cooked food. All whole foods
contain protein and therefore this response
happens. This is called by scientists, the white
tide.

Most mainstream nutritionists consider this
white tide to be normal. However, most blood
parameters vary by only 5 to 10% maximum. For
instance, blood calcium levels range between 9
and 11 that is plus or minus only 10%.

But white blood cell counts go anywhere from 3
million to 18 million and that is considered
normal and healthy. That is a 600% difference.

Normal is called healthy because it is what
everybody does or gets. But Dr. Graham believes a
low white blood cell count is healthy. (He
doesn't mean severely low white blood cell counts
as some very sick people experience.)

* What happens to fat when you heat it?

Dr. Graham: Heating fats to a high temperature
creates acrylamide which is a known carcinogen.

(Roger's comments: Some extra background
information I gathered for you: Here's some info
from the US FDA about acrylamide. Note that
French Fries and potato chips are cooked in oil.
So you could put acrylamide into the
carbohydrates and fats category.

" In April 2002, researchers in Sweden
discovered that cooking at high temperatures
could create acrylamide in many types of foods,
particularly starchy foods such as french fries,
potato chips, bread, rice, and processed cereals.

Scientists know that acrylamide causes cancer in
laboratory rats. They also know that contact with
large quantities of acrylamide can cause nerve
damage in humans. But no one knows whether the
tiny amounts of acrylamide in cooked foods can
cause cancer or have any other harmful effects
when ingested by people. "As soon as we heard
about this problem, we took action and laid out a
solid plan to learn more about acrylamide and to
reduce exposure to it," says Terry Troxell,
Ph.D., director of the FDA's Office of Plant and
Dairy Foods and Beverages.")

Fats normally have single or double bonds on the
molecular level. Heating fats creates
indigestible triple bonds. These heated fats
produce an extreme adverse impact in our ability
to uptake, transports and utilize oxygen and
sugar.

The higher you heat a food, the worse the damage
is.

* What happens to carbohydrates when they are
cooked?

Dr. Graham: Caramelization which is a known
carcinogen. For instance, when you make toast,
that is caramelization. The blacker it gets, the
more carcinogenic it becomes.

(My Notes: Caramelization produces six different
levels of chemical reactions in the sugar
molecule. When you cook you are actually
practicing chemistry. In a typical soup, millions
of new molecules are created in the cooking
process. This is called a Maillard Reaction.
Boiling a potato creates 420 new molecules in the
potato that did not exist before it was cooked.)

Caramelization also makes sugars much more
readily available. This increases their glycemic
index or how quickly and how high the food raises
your blood sugar levels. Eating these kinds of
foods can cause dangerous spikes in your blood
sugar levels.

You don't want to have large spikes in your
blood sugar; it is very difficult on the body.
Fruit sugars however give a quick but mild rise
in blood sugar.

* How much can a food be heated before it starts
getting damaged?

Dr. Graham: How much can you heat your hand?
Whatever your hand can take is approximately how
much your food can be heated before it becomes
damaged.

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I hope you enjoyed this information from Dr.
Graham. I know I sure did.

*** Get Three Months Of Raw Food Coaching ***

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they will change your life. This is truly
breakthrough information in my opinion.

Tomorrow I'll be sending you the story of one of
my How To Go Raw.com members who's health
completely turned around after listening to the
Perfect Health Program. She was doing the raw
food diet all wrong and it was ruining her
health. It's a fascinating story you won't want
to miss.

Dr. Graham has worked with world-class Olympic
and professional athletes, celebrities and movie
stars and helped them all to go 100% raw.

Therefore, if you order the Perfect Health
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This coaching will be in the way of a free three-
month membership at my raw food coaching and
education website, How To Go Raw.com. You can
find out more about it and what you'll be
getting, by visiting this link.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/success.html

*** Please Act Quickly - There Is A Deadline ***

There's one final thing. I want you to take
action on this offer quickly. If you dilly-dally
you may forget and never take action. Therefore,
I will remove this special offer when the first
50 people take advantage of it or at the end of
April, whichever comes first.

It's time to take action and step into a new
life. Use this link to start your new life and
become the best you. You'll unleash the
Superbeing within by eating an Optimal Raw Food
Diet and following the other healthy lifestyle
practices you'll learn from Dr. Graham.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
Roger Haeske

P.S. How To Go Raw.com also has an extensive
recipe section and all members get Frédéric
Patenaude's quick and easy raw recipe book,
"Instant Raw Sensations." Most of the recipes can
be made in under ten minutes. Going raw is easy
if you love what you eat.

For more info
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I Was Crying And Alone

2006-04-08T13:42:00.000-04:00

Today I'm going to share with you an extremely
personal story. I tell it because maybe in some
way, my story can help you or someone you know.

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I was crying with tears streaming down my face
and begging God to help me. I was so incredibly
alone, none of my friends were able to help me. I
tried talking to them but nothing relieved my
pain and terror.

In fact, I almost didn't feel like a member of
the human race anymore. I just wasn't able to
deal with people without feeling fear or having
to hold back from bursting out crying.

I couldn't look my friends or coworkers in the
eyes because I didn't want to reveal all of the
pain inside. My condition was so crippling it
blocked most normal social interactions. When I
closed my eyes to visualize, I saw darkness
instead of the glowing light I used to see.

Life was a living hell. I barely scraped by
financially. I was constantly worried about
getting fired and did get fired twice and barely
hung on to my other numerous jobs. I often had
panic attacks at work. In fact, I was frequently
terrified to go to work, but I had to force
myself to go, just to barely scrape by.

*** I Discovered My Miracle Cure ***

Then in 1996, after six and a half years of hell
due to depression and panic attacks, I discovered
my miracle cure. Within one day, I was out of
hell forever. All I did was read one book that
held the secret.

That book taught me that fruit was our ideal
food and the importance of eating raw foods. That
book saved me, but it didn't finish the job. For
one reason or another, I was never able to stay
100% raw for more than two or three months at a
time.

Eating 50% raw foods was enough to keep me out
of depression. Eating 75% raw made me feel much
happier, but every time I went to eating 100%
raw, it was like being in a state of eternal
bliss. I went from hell to heaven just by
changing the foods I ate.

It took me five years of experimentation,
repeated failure, reading all sorts of raw food
books, and attending lectures by all the
prominent raw food educators around the world
before I discovered how to go 100% raw and stay
that way. After failing at going 100% raw more
than five times, I had given up hope. I was
convinced that my so-called body type was not
able to go 100% raw.

When I went to the first lecture by Dr. Douglas
Graham that warm August evening, in a cramped
health food store, located in an apartment in New
York City, I knew I finally had my answer. I was
so incredibly excited, it was a eureka experience.

After the lecture ended, I thanked Dr. Graham
with a tear in my eye and told him that I would
finally be able to go 100% raw because of the
breakthrough information he taught me that warm
August night.

Why do I tell you this story? Because I want you
to experience the blissful happiness, radiant
health and peak performance that an Optimal Raw
Food Diet brings.

Once you go raw, almost every major area of your
life starts improving dramatically. You meet old
friends and they are shocked at your new youthful
glow and say you look ten years younger. The
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This is just a small taste of what happens to
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health, happiness and fitness.

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I want to do everything in my power so that you
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To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
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P.S. Tomorrow I'm going to email you some notes
I took from one of the CD's of the Perfect Health
Program. You'll learn the science behind why
cooking damages, deranges and destroys the food
you eat and therefore your health, as taught by
Dr. Graham.

Mother Gains Courage... Stays Raw

2006-04-08T13:38:00.000-04:00

"Nutritionist And Personal Trainer Believes Low
Fat Raw To Be The Best"

Once you've started eating more raw fruits and
vegetables, you'll probably feel the urge to 'go
to the next level.'

Or you might be wondering, how to stay raw while
your family, friends and society tempt you with
cooked food on a daily basis. Is there a way to
easily go raw and never even want to eat cooked
foods again?

Well in fact, there is and you can find it at
http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html. How To Go Raw
is your secret to super healing, creating your
perfect body and feeling happier and more
energetic than a healthy seven year old.

Below I've included an instructive story from
one of my members at
http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html. She's has
degrees in nutrition, dietetics and physiology
and yet even she needed support to help her to
succeed with staying raw.

You see, going raw is not just about
understanding how to eat a raw food diet
correctly. It's also about knowing how to stand
up for your own needs. I've seen so many people
sacrifice their own health and welfare because of
false notions about serving others.

We have to get rid of some false beliefs so that
we can achieve radiant health and happiness on a
raw food diet and for just about anything else in
life.

Again, I go back to the 'freedom principles'
I've mentioned to you in past issues. At least
50% of the people I coach initially fail because
they've been enslaved by false and limiting ideas.

I'd say that 75% of people in general don't
understand the 'freedom principles' as espoused
by Harry Browne and others.

If you want to succeed in anything, you have to
be a leader and be independent of the so-called
'good judgment' of others. You have to make
decisions that are in your best interest. Because
you will only serve others best if you are happy.

Ok then, below is Sandra's story. Please read it
carefully as she includes some tips that can help
you to make going raw much easier. She's also
left an audio recording for you at this page.
She's the second testimonial down the page.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/testimonials.html

*~*~*~*~*~*
I am fairly new to Roger's Forum but I have
noticed a huge difference in my commitment to raw
since I've joined. I don't know anyone else that
is raw, so finding a support buddy is nearly
impossible.

I have been learning about the benefits of raw
foods for 2 years. I know they have changed my
life and health dramatically.

I have degrees in nutrition, dietetics and
physiology so I know the science behind eating
this way. I have studied many different raw diets
and experimented on my own to see how they
effected my health.

It has been a journey and I keep moving forward.
Roger's low fat vegan raw is the one that works
hands down.

My downfall has been not making that 100% raw
commitment. My family is not raw and of course a
lot of happiness and emotions are connected with
what I now know as food addictions. I have been
100% raw off and on but always come off to please
others, get trapped in the addiction and then it
takes me a long time to crawl out of the hole
I've dug.

Roger's email "Is your family your excuse to
stay sick?" really hit home! I need to post this
up on my wall!!!!

Having Roger's feedback often gets me to look at
things from a different perspective. I may not
even see something as an issue but with his
comments it gives me new information, allows me
to really listen closer to my body, and guides me
to a new level of health.

I have a lot of knowledge. I have been a
personal trainer myself for many years. It takes
more than that to succeed. Knowing is just the
beginning. Putting it into action and having it
work for you is a completely different thing.

Someday's I spend so much time and effort
helping others that I don't take care of myself.
When I am in a weakened state, I make weak
choices. When I let this continue, I find I am
not much help to anyone. It took me a long time
to realize that I, myself need help. I need
guidance. I need an outside perspective. This is
what I have gotten from How To Go Raw!

The health benefits come automatically when
making right decisions. Learning what decisions
are right and acquiring the courage to make them
is key. Some of my problems with being 100% raw
seem fairly simple now that I can look back on
them.

Not having enough raw food in the house was one.
Now I order in cases. This is new to me and was a
challenge in the courage department. But I've
conquered it and it is easy now. I have a
wonderful supply of raw foods surrounding me.
This is what I want!

This was a decision I did not make until joining
How To Go Raw. Just reading others posts and
Roger's replies, I gained a lot of insight on
what I needed to be doing to succeed. I now have
fallen in love with being raw.

There is no other way to describe it. When
you're in love, you don't care what other people
do. You don't need to struggle to find the
courage. It just comes naturally. When you
embrace raw, all else seems to fall away. The
support forum has helped me see this, feel this
and whenever I need a boost it is there for the
asking!

Sandra Dwan

Here again is the link to listen to her brief
audio recording which is different than the above
story.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/testimonials.html

*~*~*~*~*~*

I hope you enjoyed and learned something from
Sandra's story.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
Roger Haeske

P.S. If you want to raise your health,
happiness, fitness and freedom to the next level,
then come on over to my premier raw food coaching
and support website. Do you want to struggle
needlessly for years or achieve radiant health NOW?

http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html

Is Family Your Excuse To Stay Sick?

2006-04-08T13:35:00.000-04:00

A few days ago one of our members at HowToGoRaw.com was reading
through some older posts at our member's only, raw food coaching
and support forum. She commented about one particular post that
she said really helped her.

Looking back at those posts, I realize there is a lot of great
information in there and I thought I'd share it with you. The
original post was from November 3, 2004.

At the time Raspberry, was new to our group. She was having a
hard time going 100% raw for several reasons including family
pressures.

The great news is that she has been 100% raw for quite a while
now. (Just a few minor set backs.) She's also lost 60 pounds and
feels great. At the end of this email, I'll post her testimonial
so you can see some of the ways she's benefited from her
membership at http://www.howtogoraw.com/success.html.

I've also added some other fantastic, new testimonials at
HowToGoRaw.com. One of them is an audio testimonial. Go now to
listen: http://www.howtogoraw.com/success.html

Her sister joined as well and also has had excellent health and
weight loss results. I'm including the forum posts below. I'll
put an RH: at the beginning of my replies to Raspberry.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Raspberry:

My family just is not ready to switch to raw. I have a really
hard time cooking for the fam and not eating it sometimes.
Would it be a good idea to switch them to vegetarian and then to

vegan and then to raw? Any suggestions on how to slowly pull
them in?

Raspberry

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
RH: That's a difficult decision. But people do better at
something when they want to do it for their own reasons.

It's best for you to stick with raw and be a shining example of
health. Don't be preachy, just let family members see your good
results and then maybe some of them will want to join you.

In the meantime, do whatever you have to do to stay raw and be
happy with it. You really shouldn't feel forced to cook food for
people. You can just refuse to cook food for anyone. But if they
want a raw concoction that you make then you can make it for them.

Yes it is a big change for them and yes you might feel silly of
you then stop eating raw. But your husband and kids will have to
learn flexibility. Isn't that just the way life goes. People
need to learn to deal with change.

If you don't put your own health interests first, you'll have a
very hard time succeeding at a raw diet. This is a reason why
many people fail to succeed at going raw.

Of course, there are people who cook for others and can stay
raw. But it's simply easier at first to not have to do that.

If I haven't suggested it yet, then please consider reading,
"How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World," by Harry Browne. You
might be able to find it in the library.

Roger

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Raspberry:

"yes you might feel silly of you then stop eating raw"

WHAT???

"You can just refuse to cook food for anyone"

Not to be argumentative Roger, but how could I refuse to cook
for my children? They are too young to cook for themselves. As
for my husband, he works hard all day and is not ready to cook
for the kids after a full day's work just to support this new
life style.

Besides, you said, do not force raw on the husband or kids. If
I refused to make cooked food and make only raw nummies, I am in
effect forcing them raw. Conflicting advice here.

It is hard to stay raw in this position. It is something I
really want, therefore I doggedly pursue it.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A couple of notes on her comments: My advice was not
conflicting, it just seemed that way to her from her position.
It would have in no way forced her family to go raw. It was
simply a suggestion that her family needed to adapt so that she
could reach her own health goals. If her husband and her family
truly loved her they would indeed adapt. {They have by the way.
They really support her now and are going vegetarian and eating
lots of raw foods.}

What if she died, would that mean her family would starve to
death? Of course not, they would adapt. Her husband could either
cook, get take out, make T.V dinners, cup of soup, or hire a
babysitter to prepare the food while he was out working. I also
think that some of her children were old enough to learn how to
prepare their own food. My brother was making his own meals at 9
years old.

It turns out her sister was living with her at the time and she
ended up doing the cooking. She was also eating raw, but cooking
food didn't bother her at all. So that helped out Raspberry at
the time.

The problem here is that people are not willing to look out for
their own interests. They feel trapped by prearranged family and
societal rules and agreements. But there is a way out if you are
creative and really want your goal enough. Luckily Raspberry
found a way that worked for her.

Plus now she can do so much more for her family. She used to
need to use a motorized wheel chair to get around. Now she can
walk freely because she doesn't have to carry around 60 extra
pounds of weight.

Your health is extremely important and it should generally come
before the needs of other people. You can only serve those
people the best anyway, if you are healthy.

This is why I recommended to her she read that book, "How I
Found Freedom In An Unfree World." Many health seekers could
benefit from reading that book. It's a classic and must read for
really anyone who wants to live life to the fullest and not be
enslaved by rules of society that benefit the society but not
the individual.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Back to my reply to Raspberry.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
RH:

Hi Raspberry,

Do you see how your health is being influenced by the desires
of others?

In order for you to succeed at going raw, you have to put your
health interests above the interests of other people in your
family like your husband and kids.

This is what so many people don't understand and they end up
not going raw because of it. If you read that book "How I Found
Freedom," I mentioned in the last post, you would completely
understand my previous response to you.

Firstly I said, "yes you might feel silly of you then stop
eating raw." This happens to most new raw foodists, they start
eating raw and then they stop and then they start. And so they
feel they shouldn't make their family go through all of their
whims. But if you were truly looking out for your health first,
then you would do whatever you needed to do to stay raw.

Now this doesn't mean that your husband and children won't eat.
But it means that you wouldn't cook any food for them
whatsoever. You could prepare raw food for them, but you would
simply refuse to cook because you know it is so damaging for
your health and for theirs. But mainly because cooking makes it
difficult for you to stay raw.

Excuse me for being blunt here. I'm not saying this to be
antagonistic but to make a point. Did your husband marry you
because you were a cook? When you make a change in your life,
the people in your life will also be forced into changes. That
is life.

Can't you find some other way around the cooking situation?
Can't some of the older kids do the cooking if you don't want
to? They can learn how to do it. I did it for myself when I was
in 8th grade. I also did my laundry and food shopping. My father
wanted us to be independent at an early age.

So again, you can prepare all sorts of raw food dishes for
them, because doing so would not tempt you to eat cooked food.
If they don't want to eat your raw food preparations, they
should try to find another way to get their cooked food. Maybe
make TV dinners or learn how to cook.

And yes, you can certainly refuse to cook for your children and
I believe you should. That's like saying, how can I refuse to
serve my children cigarettes? Maybe in the past you didn't know
that smoking cigarettes was bad for your health, but now there
are big warning labels on all cigarettes. So when you discover
something is unhealthy, would you continue giving it to your
family?

While I was growing up, we stopped eating white bread and
certain cereals because my parents discovered how bad they were
for our health. It's no different than giving up cooked food.

What if the government came out today and put warning labels on
cooked food that said "Cooking your food is as dangerous and
possibly much more dangerous to your health than smoking
cigarettes?" Would you then still feel comfortable cooking food
for your family?

By giving in to their desires, you are also giving them
something that is killing them and ruining their lives. However,
I believe in free will, so let these family members make their
own food choices and adapt. They can change and it is good for
them to learn to change. The change being that you won't cook
for them anymore.

But if this still doesn't work out, then you'll have to learn
to discipline yourself not to eat the cooked food you prepare
for them. A friend of mine had to give up her career in
restaurants when she went raw. She absolutely loves to cook, and
she can even cook food and not really eat it. But she doesn't
want to be a part of contributing to the sickness of cooked
food. She decided to change careers because of her diet.

What I'm really teaching you here are freedom principles. Many
people are not aware of these principles and some people are
simply not strong enough to live in freedom.

Please try to find that book, it's essential in helping you
succeed at going raw. Plus it can totally transform and improve
your life. I give it my highest recommendation.

Roger

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

** Here's Rasberry's great testimonial **

I am a raw foodist. I love how that sounds. I started raw after
hearing about it from a friend last August. This same friend
recommended HowToGoRaw.com, so I checked it out.

I signed up right away and started posting in the forum. There
were many times in the beginning of my raw journey that I

struggled. I went to the site and always found help.

There were days when I was cranky and depressed. (You know you
are a raw foodist when your children ask you if you ate cooked
just because you are a little cranky) Days where I wondered if
being raw was worth it. It was a struggle for me because I had
to give up everything that was comfortable to me.

The hardest food for me to stop eating was cheese. If you had
asked me before I would have said chocolate, but it was cheese.
I needed a cheese substitute and found it. (You know you are a
raw foodist when you grind up nuts and call it cheese)

I received the support I needed. I found a couple of on-line
friendships that I value. Raw Food is a miracle for me. I feel
better than I have ever remembered. I have confidence in this
program that I've had in no other; confidence that I am doing
the healthiest thing for my body, and confidence that I can
continue to lose weight until all of it is gone.

I have lost 60 pounds. I no longer use a motorized wheelchair.
The pain in my knees has disappeared. All the numbers doctors
are concerned with have come down and into normal range ie BP
101 over 68. Above all else, I feel wonderful both emotionally
and physically. Raw really works.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
I hope you enjoyed and benefited from these posts located at
the HowToGoRaw.com forum.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Are you having trouble sticking to a raw food diet? Do you
want to do it with less struggle and make sure that you are
getting all the nutrients you need? The key to being successful
with a raw food diet getting expert support. I wasn't able to
succeed with a raw diet until I got my own raw food coach.

Go to http://www.howtogoraw.com/success.html and join our Raw
Food Diet Success Society. Radiant health, happiness and your
perfect body are awaiting you and you'll be guided and supported
every step of the way.

The Raw Dish is Reborn

2006-03-27T18:26:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that "The Raw Dish" will be starting up again in a new and improved format. It was a great monthly magazine of raw food events and articles in the New York City area. My friend Stephen Parker is the publisher.

I believe he's going to be expanding the format and publishing up to date information about raw food events all around the world.

He's got some great posts on his blog already. Check it out at:

The Raw Dish

Roger

Is Raw Chocolate Healthy Or Even Raw?

2005-12-31T17:42:00.000-05:00

Dear Friend,

First of all I'd like to wish you a Happy New Year. I look forward to sharing lots of powerful new information with you in 2006.

Have you been convinced that raw cacao is some kind of superfood or food of the gods? Below I'm going to share with you a number of resources that thoroughly discuss this issue. That way you can better make up your own mind.

I have tried raw chocolate or cacao nibs. From the first one I ate, I immediately felt a sense of stimulation. Stimulants like caffeine, drugs and even vitamin supplements are not things that promote health.

If you are being stimulated, your body is at the same time being enervated. A stimulant is simply a toxin to your body. The reason you feel the extra energy is because your body goes into a heightened elimination mode. You're body requires extra energy to eliminate this toxin and it releases reserve sugar into your bloodstream to provide it with the extra energy to eliminate the toxin.

** You Don't Get Energy from Caffeine and Stimulants, You Actually Lose Energy **

With caffeine for instance, the body is able to completely rid itself of the caffeine within two hours of ingesting it. All the extra energy you feel is literally robbing you of minerals, nutrients and energy so that you're body can eliminate this very toxic substance as quickly as it can.

This is the problem with so many claims to the health benefits of certain foods. These superfoods, may have some valuable nutrients in them, but their overall effect on your health might be more negative than positive. You always have to look to the overall effect of a food on your health, not just to a few nutrients in the food.

In my research of the nutrients in chocolate, there is no valuable nutrient in it, that isn't easily available in a variety fruits and vegetables. Remember, raw fruits and vegetables are the real superfoods for humans.

You can confirm this for yourself by using this great nutritional website:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html

You can put in any nutrient and it will tell you which foods are highest in that nutrient. Plus so much more.

*** Is Raw Chocolate Even Raw? ***

This is an interesting topic that has been highly debated. There are some experts who claim there is no way to make cacao taste like chocolate unless it is heated to cooking temperatures. This even goes for those so-called raw cacao companies that ferment their cacao beans. Supposedly they still have to heat the beans in order for them to taste any good at all.

I've read about this from several sources. Here's a post by Dr. Douglas Graham about this topic.

*~*~*~*~*~*

From: Dr. Doug Graham (DrGraham.vegsource.com)

Subject: Chocolate

Date: June 7, 2005 at 3:49 am PST

In Reply to: Naked Chocolate posted by Jamie Clark on June 5, 2005 at 5:35 pm:

Briefly, ever so briefly,

First, there is no raw chocolate being sold, anywhere. In order to taste like chocolate, cacao beans must be heated. I have lived in the tropics and have tried to bring out the chocolate taste in other ways, it simply cannot be done. There is no such thing as raw chocolate.

Even the chocolate that is fermented so said to be raw is eventually heated, and high enough to be cooked.

I am sure you know that heating the proteins in chocolate denatures them and causes them to become carcinogenic. I assume you are aware that heating the carbohydrates caramelizes them, adversely affecting their GI rating and also creating carcinogens. It made worldwide headlines three years ago that heating fats, even the fats in chocolate, results in the production of carcinogens, so that is no news to you, I am sure. It also results in the production of enzyme resistant protein bonds that are a causative agent in conditions ranging from arthritis to allergies, leaky gut, and many others. The double bonds of the fats in chocolate become triple bonds under the influence of heat making them physiologically nonviable for humans and adversely impacting upon our cholesterol levels.

As far as the components of chocolate, essentially it is a cocktail of toxic chemicals and drugs.

Cacao beans contain:

methylxanthines such as the stimulant drugs known as caffeine, theobromine, and theophyllin, all of which are known to produce permanent degenerative alterations in cellular protoplasm.

More tannin than tea.

Oxalic acid

Cannabinoids

Aflatoxins

There is not the time to go into the toxic impact of each of this drugs, but if you want such information I can supply it via a consultation. I am sure you can do a search on these substances to find their debilitating effects on human health.

So, chocolate is not raw, is defintely not health food, and cannot be considered a superfood. There is nothing about marketing chocolate that can be considered a positive except for the possible bottom line profits that it may offer.

Hope this helps,

Dr D

Here's the direct link to his post:

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/raw/messages/15852.html

This is a very informative post:

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/raw/messages/15839.html

For the whole discussion, you can continue reading here:

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/raw/messages/15830.html

From Another Forum:

http://snipurl.com/l6nq

Plus if you'll discover proof that a major raw food author plagiarized his first book.

*~*~*~*~*~*

*** Is Raw Chocolate Healthy? ***

Raw Cacao: another stimulant disguised as a healthy food

by Frédéric Patenaude

Many of my readers have been asking me what I think of the whole raw cacao craze. For those who don't know, raw cacao beans are now sold by different raw-food companies as the latest "superfood." Cacao beans are traditionally roasted and used to make chocolate. Now, raw-foodists have found a raw version of the beloved bean and are apparently using it for its magical properties.

First, let me start by explaining what my own personal use of cacao is. I've known for a long time that cacao is a stimulant. Not as strong as coffee, but its stimulating "qualities" are easy to spot when your body is not used to eating such foods. Because of this, I often used carob powder in my recipes. Carob powder is made from a fruit and has a taste that reminds of chocolate. It is naturally sweet. Instead of being a stimulant, carob is a mineral rich food and has a calming effect. So, like most raw-foodists, I used carob powder in my recipes. But, then one day, I decided to use cacao powder. I figured: if I'm going to make something that tastes like chocolate, why not use the real thing? I've noticed that cacao has a stimulating effect, but since I was using it occasionally (i.e. less than once a month) and just for fun in some recipes, I was not too bothered by that little indiscretion. However, I never considered it to be a health food.

Now, cacao beans are sold to us at an exorbitant price under the assumption that it's one of the best things we could ever eat. I couldn't disagree more.

First of all, cacao beans are not really food. If you found them in nature, you wouldn't eat the seeds. You would eat the fruit, which is apparently delicious, and throw away the seeds. Even if you wanted to eat the seeds, they would not taste like chocolate. In order for the cacao seeds to taste like chocolate and become the cacao beans that we know, they have to be fermented first. They are fairly bitter, indicating the presence of a poison. And when I say a "poison," I'm not making this up. Just do a little research and you'll discover that cacao contains many chemicals with a stimulating effects, such as theobromine and caffeine.

Frederic Patenaude has a free weekly e-newsletter filled with unique nutrition tips, informative articles and exclusive interviews for you.

A popular article on raw cacao beans claims that cacao "increase(s) your focus and alertness and contains nutrients to keep you happy."

My answer to that is the same as has been said and is being said about coffee. The fact is that what people actually confuse with "alertness" is actually an adrenal response to the stress that the body has to deal with when eliminating the toxins found in cacao beans. What you get is NOT energy. What you experience as energy is actually your body working hard to establish balance (homeostasis) again! It's like whipping a horse. Eventually, it will fall down.

Here's an excerpt from Neal Barnard's book, "Breaking the Food Seduction":

"Researchers at the University of Michigan brought out the truth about chocolate. In a research study, they gave 26 volunteers a drug called 'noxalone.' They then offered them a tray filled with Snicker's Bars, M&Ms, chocolate chip cookies, and Oreos. Normally, these snacks would have quickly disappeared. But, the drug knocked out the desire for chocolate. A candy bar was not much more exciting than a crust of dry bread.

“Noxalone is an opiate blocker. That is, it stops heroin, morphine, and other narcotics from affecting the brain. And, it blocks the effects of chocolate, too. This research study showed that chocolate's appeal does not come from its creamy texture or deep brown color. Chocolate stimulates the same part of the brain that morphine acts on. For all intents and purposes, chocolate is a drug - not necessarily a bad one and not a terribly strong one, but strong enough, nonetheless, to keep us coming back for more."

Many people would argue that when cacao is not cooked, these chemicals do not have the same effect on the body. But yet, those same people who say that actually admit to eating cacao beans for their stimulating effect! Many people have reported not being able to fall asleep if they eat cacao beans late at night and that they are still looking for the "best" time of the day to eat them. Others tell me that when they eat cacao beans, they get so much energy, but then have a "down" later on. Does that remind you of something?

If you like the taste, you could use some cacao once in a while in a recipe. But don't fool yourself into thinking that there's somehow something really good about this. Personally, I would consider using cacao when making a special desert for a special occasion. I don't recommend eating cacao otherwise. I don't find anything special in it. I don't buy the whole raw cacao craze and I don't think it is worth the price that is charged for it.

Remember: A rose by any other name is ... just as thorny. Have fun! ;-)

Frédéric Patenaude has written several great books on the raw food diet and is the publisher of a great weekly ezine called "Pure Health and Nutrition." To learn more about what Frédéric has to offer, please visit his website with the link below.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/RawSensations.html

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I hope you've found this information helpful to you. I'm sorry if I burst your bubble about so-called raw chocolate or cacao. You can still eat it (I'd only do it occasionally if at all.) but at least now you know what you are getting yourself into.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

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Is Juicing Worth The Effort?

2005-12-03T14:17:00.000-05:00

By Roger Haeske

For many years now, juicing has been promoted as a miracle cure and a way to get super nutrition, above and beyond what you could get from whole foods. In this article, I'm going to analyze this theory and give you my findings.

** Why Juice?

People juice because they feel they aren't getting enough vital nutrients in their diets. The theory is that by juicing, you remove the fiber and therefore your body can easily absorb much higher levels of nutrients directly into the bloodstream.

This may indeed be true. But there are some problems with doing this. If you juice foods that are high in sugar content like fruits and carrots, by removing the fiber, you will get a high spike in your blood sugar levels.

Habitual juicing of sweet fruits and carrots is definitely not a healthy thing to do, regardless of the fact if some nutrients become more absorbable. These super high spikes in blood sugar are not healthy. You always have to look at the overall effect of eating a food on your health, not just how many nutrients a food has.

Many times these so-called super foods also have high levels of toxins in them which make the result of eating them, less than ideal for your health. Garlic is a perfect example of that. In addition, garlic isn't really a food but a condiment.

That is a whole long story that I won't get into here, but I do discuss it in my 31-Day Course to Raw Food Diet Success which you can get here if you didn't already get sign up for it.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/31daycourse1.htm

Many experts agree with me that juicing sweet foods isn't the wisest thing to do, but they promote juicing dark leafy greens instead. The good news is if you do this you won't get a high spike in blood sugar levels and you may indeed absorb more of certain kinds of nutrients.

But this can cause several problems as well. Your nutrient levels will become imbalanced. Just as getting too few nutrients is bad for you, so is getting too many.

When you have excess nutrients in your bloodstream, your body has to get rid of them or store them in your fat cells. This causes the body extra work and therefore, you're body has less energy and time to heal and repair itself.

Our bodies have a limited capacity for nutrients. There is only so much it can absorb. anything above that amount becomes an overload and is actually toxic. This actually happened to me when I used to take this super powerful supplement. I started getting pains in my side. As soon as I stopped taking the supplement the pains went away.

There's also another serious flaw in the whole juicing theory. What is removed during juicing is also a vital nutrient. Fiber is removed during the juicing process and as we all know fiber is an important nutrient, which helps in the digestion process.

Another interesting point about fiber is that the most nutritious part of a food is often in the fiber. Many of the nutrients in food are actually found in the fiber. An example of this is an orange. The albedo or the white skin of an orange is loaded with phytonutrients. That healthy fiber is removed in the juicing process.

In my opinion, juicing makes a food less nutritious, not more nutritious. I personally know some people who started getting constipation when they started juicing. It's no wonder since they are removing the fiber from the food.

A raw food diet is great because it's very high in fiber, why remove that fiber by juicing?

** My Results With Juicing:

The most juicing I ever did was before I ever went on a 100% raw food diet. I can tell you that extensive juicing did little if anything to improve my health. I was as depressed and miserable as ever.

But going raw made quick and dramatic improvements in many areas of my health. There is no comparison. There is so much more to health than just vitamins, minerals and nutrients.

** What You Don't Eat, Is More Important Than What You Do Eat:

One of the most important aspects of going 100% raw is what you don't eat. Because when you stop eating toxic: cooked, processed and chemical laden foods, you lower your intake of toxins dramatically.

This is actually much more important than the nutrients you take in. Because most people have enough nutrients and in many cases they have an overload of nutrients.

Everyone wants to believe they can take a magic pill or juice and their health will all of a sudden become better. But their nutrient levels are probably alright to begin with. On a health scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest, for most people, nutrients only count as a 1 to 3 in importance to their overall health.

But lowering your toxic load by eating raw, is at least an 8-10 in importance for most people. So if you could sell a supplement that could truly lower your toxic load then that indeed would be the magic pill.

But there is no such supplement, although many supplements manufacturers try to make that claim. The only way to ideal health is to eat a 100% raw food diet, which also happens to be made up of the true superfoods for humans, raw fruits and vegetables.

The other big problem with juicing is how time consuming and expensive it is. You have to buy so much extra food to turn it into a decent amount of juice. You have to use about 8 to 12 carrots for a large glass of juice.

What I hated the most was all the preparation and clean up time. Making juices took a long time because all the foods had to be cleaned and cut into small pieces. Then the cleanup took another 15 minutes or more. It's a true waste of time and money and you get an inferior product as a result.

** A Powerful Alternative To Juicing:

I like to blend my foods with a high-powered blender like the Vita-Mix 5000. The great thing about using the Vita-Mix is that you can make whole food juices. That way all the nutrients are in the food including the fiber. It's a whole food.

It's the ultimate kitchen tool for the raw foodist. So many of us use a Vita-Mix many times a day to quickly make delicious meals. There are several reasons I can think of why owning a Vita-Mix will help you to succeed at going raw. For one thing it makes eating raw even more delicious.

Let's say you want to eat breakfast. Maybe you're bored of just eating mono meals of bananas and other fruits. You can quickly and easily make delicious raw smoothies. (Note you can do this with a regular blender as well, but preparation time and clean up time is a bit longer with a regular blender.)

A favorite of smoothie of mine is wild blueberry / banana. It tastes unbelievably good when you use really ripe bananas with just the right amount of wild blueberries. Regular blueberries also taste pretty good, but the wild ones taste even better to me and their antioxidant levels are much higher.

What about making a strawberry / banana smoothie? It tastes great as well and is a surprisingly compatible food combination. Normally it's not recommended to eat acid fruits and sweet fruits together.

So a Vita-Mix can help you to add variety and improve the flavors of your raw foods. It helps you to stay raw because you can make so many great tasting raw food recipes with it.

But it also does something else. It helps you to eat more food. For some of you that is a problem, when you go raw you just don’t eat enough calories, you're not used to stretching out your stomach and so you can get really skinny and lack energy.

By making smoothies you'll find it easier to eat more bananas than without smoothies. Therefore, it can help you to get enough calories during the day. For some reason it's just easier to eat more when the bananas are in the form of a smoothie.

This is a good trick for people who become underweight on a raw diet.

Another great thing about the Vita-Mix is the ability to make big blended salads. There are four big advantages with making blended salads.

1. You don’t have to make a salad dressing. The whole salad becomes like a thick or thin soup depending on how you make it.

2. It again allows you to get down more greens. I sometimes eat more than a large head of romaine in a day, plus lots of tomatoes, cucumber and celery with the use of my Vita-Mix. It has a large 64 oz container so that I can make a big blended salad in one shot. Normal blenders I'd have to make two blended salads instead of one because they have much smaller containers. Plus they are much slower and I can't put in harder ingredients like carrots.

3. It saves time as well. Eating a large regular salad takes me at least 45 minutes to eat because I chew my salads thoroughly. The Vita-Mix has done all of my chewing for me. Now I just need to eat a mouthful and swish it around in my mouth a few seconds to let my salivary juices flow and help in the digestion process.

I can eat this big blended salad in ten minutes.

4. The final benefit is similar to what juicing claims to do. There are some people in the Natural Hygiene movement who believe that by making blended salads we can actually absorb more nutrients from the salads.

I don't know if that is true or not, but I know I can definitely eat more greens because of making blended salads and this will of course increase my nutrient absorption.

In my blended salads, I also add carrots. This something a regular blender can't do because it doesn't have enough power. Just one carrot and you've got a full day's supply of vitamin A. Plus carrots are a great thickener and flavor enhancer. You can use them to make low-fat raw pâtés.

If you want to make raw pâtés, you need a high-powered blender like the Vita-Mix. A regular blender doesn't generate enough power to make these pâtés. You can also grind flax seed or any seeds into a fine powder or flower.

For a summer treat, you can make the most delicious, low fat, raw ice creams. This is a powerful tool for the aspiring raw foodist. I highly recommend you get one for yourself. It makes raw eating more fun than ever.

If you are interested in getting your own Vita-Mix with a 7-year warranty (which you can't get if you buy it from eBay), then please visit this page. I've added some super bonuses if you order from my link.

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To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Why You Must Be Fit To Be Healthy

2005-11-23T15:34:00.000-05:00

It's very close to Thanksgiving here in the United States, a holiday
where overeating is expected. We also have Christmas and the many other
holidays coming up. During this holiday time, people tend to neglect
their bodies by overeating and forgetting to exercise.

In this article, I'm going to give you some powerful reasons to start
exercising and continue it on a regular basis for the rest of your life.

First, I'll start of with a quote from Dr. Douglas Graham who is one of
the top raw food speakers and authorities in the world and also a world
class sports nutritionist. I wrote this in yesterday's article but I
think it's a great way to get your attention and get started.

* Why It's Impossible To Be Healthy Without Being Fit

"The other part of your question was why so much attention to fitness
and that is because human beings are supposed to be fit. It's a natural
state of being for us to be fit and it's the one of the legs upon which
health is created. It is not possible and I will explain why in great
depth, but it is absolutely physiologically impossible for an unfit
person to be healthy."

"It is also impossible for an unfit person to be well nourished no
matter what diet theyre on. Even if theyre on the best diet in the
world, an unfit person cannot be well nourished and well explain that
in depth because that usually rocks people pretty deeply to their core."

This quote is taken from Dr. Graham's interview with Frédéric Patenaude.
To get the whole interview please use this link:

http://www.HowToGoRaw.com/PerfectHealth.html

* Study: Exercise Can Add 3.5 Years to Your Life

I just read this article last night. There were actually two studies
that showed that regular and vigorous exercise can extend your life.
Here's a short quote from the article.

"Life expectancy at age 50 for the medium activity group was 1.5 years
longer than for the low activity group. The high activity group lived
3.5 years longer.

The extra years were lived mostly free from heart disease."

This study suggests that the more you exercise the longer you'll live.
Regular exercise had a powerful effect on reducing heart disease.

* Exercise Makes You Smarter

Last year I read a study which showed that if you exercise regularly in
your older years, you won't lose your mental or thinking ability.

The study was done over 10 years on 290 European men between the ages of
70 and 90. What they found was astonishing in my opinion.

The men who continued their normal exercise routines for the period of
the trial lost no mental abilities at all. Loss of mental function was
3.6 times greater for men with the lowest levels of activity compared to
those who were the most active.

"The researchers found that the reduction in mental ability, as measured
by a standardized test, was 2.6 times greater in the men who reduced
their activity by an hour or more a day compared to those who maintained
their activity level."

* Vigorous Exercise Alkalizes the Body

Did you know that you can make your body more alkaline by doing vigorous
exercise that makes you breathe deeply?

This is an amazing benefit of my Lightning Speed Fitness Program. It
will get you huffing and puffing and therefore alkalizing your body. I
can noticeably feel the difference in how good I feel when I regularly
do Lightning Aerobics which is included when you get the Lightning Speed
Fitness Program.

In order to get this alkalizing affect, you have to exercise in the
right way. Because if you do it wrong, you will actually make your body
too acidic. But if you follow the Lightning Speed Aerobics Program
you'll not only alkalize your body but you'll also notice dramatically
increased energy levels.

My Lightning Speed Aerobics Program can be found in the Member's Only
forum.

If you'd like to see how fun and easy vigorous exercise can be, then I
suggest you get The Lightning Speed Fitness Program at this link:

http://www.HowToGoRaw.com/fitness.html

* Exercise Helps With Detoxification

Our lymph system is like our human garbage disposal system. This is the
system that helps to remove all the toxins in your body.

The lymph system is a protector and a defense mechanism against
infection, viruses, bacteria, fungi and disease. It is comprised of
fluid, vessels, ducts and various other organs and structures. It clears
toxins, wastes, excess fluids, and infection from all tissues of the
body through proper flow and drainage provided this essential system is
functioning at its peak.

Every cell in your body is surrounded by lymph fluid. You have four
times more lymph fluid in your body than blood.

Here is an interesting fact; the lymph system does not have a pump.
Lymph fluid can only be pumped by deep breathing and exercise. This is a
clue that exercising was supposed to be a natural part of our design.
This again is why it is so important to exercise. You can never have
ideal health if you don't exercise regularly.

A book that goes into great detail about the lymph system and how to
naturally cure cancer is "The Fit For Life Solution," by Harvey Diamond.
If you have cancer or any disease or illness, then this book is
something you should definitely read. For more information on the book,
please visit this link:

http://www.HowToGoRaw.com/FitForLifeSolution.html

Or maybe you just want to be fully educated in how your body runs and
heals itself. I think you'll be astonished at how the medical system
misunderstands the lymph system and is always trying to remove so-called
cancerous lymph nodes. Removing lymph nodes is removing a vital part of
the body's detoxification system, this doesn't result in increased
health.

* All Humans 10,000 Years Ago Exercised Vigorously Every Day

Before the advent of agriculture or farming, humans were nomadic. They
had to travel long distances on a daily basis to get their foods. Here
are some interesting points made by Nutritional Anthropologist Geoff
Bond, in his book, "Natural Eating."

Early humans lived in groups of 35 to 50 people and had a territory of
about 200 miles which they ferociously defended. This group would camp
in one place for a few days then move on and make another camp 10 to 20
miles away.

Not only that but women, children and older men would walk an travel an
average of five miles per day while foraging for food. But men went out
on hunting for small game and would be collecting edible matter on an
opportunistic basis. They traveled between 9 and 12 miles per day on
their expeditions with periods of running or jogging.

I don't think humans could have been overweight and out of shape in
those days. The quality of the food was much better, even if they cooked
some of it and of course they exercised like crazy.

It is estimated that the average female adult energy expenditure was 600
calories per day compared to the 230 calories for today's sedentary
female office worker. Adult men on the other hand burned an extra 1,000
calories per day. Compare this with the modern male office worker
expenditure of 306 calories.

So you can see that from the earliest times humans always exercised
vigorously just in order to survive. Movement and activity was natural
for them and they were actually much healthier and longer-lived than
when humans switched to farming and living in one place.

I hope this information gives you even more motivation to exercise. I
know it has motivated me. I think I'll go do some Lightning Aerobics
right now.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
Roger Haeske

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Acing The 100% Raw Food Diet

2005-11-11T17:59:00.000-05:00

Acing the 100% Raw Food Diet

This is my recent article as it appeared in Living Nutrition Magazine's latest issue, Volume 17, 2005. To get your copy of this 88 page issue and get a subscription please use the link below.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/LivingNutritionMag.html

This issue is jam packed with great information including 17 great recipes with pictures. There's also a great interview with Dr. T. Colin Campbell the author of "The China Study." Is he a raw foodist?

You'll also find a super catalog raw food books, kitchen tools and appliances at his main site.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/LivingNutritionMag.html

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Here is my original title to my article, but David Klein changed it.

"How I Went from Failure to Success on the 100% Raw Food Diet"

This is what he changed it to:

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"Acing the 100% Raw Food Diet"

Tennis Instructor Beats Depression and Anxiety and Forges a New Career in Radiant Health Coaching.

by Roger Haeske

As a Radiant Health Coach, I've had some requests to share about my initial failures at going 100% raw. This might help you, as you may have made similar mistakes and you can learn from my mistakes. I’ll also share the many ways the raw diet has improved my life. Starting in 1995, I attempted to go 100% raw for extended periods of time and failed at least five times. One problem or another always managed to get me off eating 100% raw. I started to believe that I would not be able to succeed at 100% raw.

The very first time I tried it, I read two books on the raw food diet. It was Arnold Ehret’s books called The Mucusless Diet, and Rational Fasting. I felt pretty good but after 3 days, I realized that I was giving up way too much. Where was the flavor? All I was basically eating where fruits and some vegetables. I didn't know anything about recipes. I ate very little in the way of nuts, seeds or avocados.

It was too big of a jump for me to make mentally at that time. The tastes were bland to me and so I couldn't imagine eating like this long term. This wasn't what I wanted for my life, so I stopped. The cost for super health SEEMED much too high. I was in my mid twenties and wanted to enjoy life. (Little did I know at the time that eating cooked food was causing my depression. My life is at least twice as enjoyable now even though I no longer eat my favorite cooked foods.)

The next time I tried going raw, I’d read more books. I read Fit for Life and Fit for Life 2 and then I looked for something in Natural Hygiene that emphasized going 100% raw. It seemed natural that 100% raw would be the best way to go. I got The Basic Health Library of three big 8.5 x 11 inch sized books, put out by T.C. Fry. So I learned all about Natural Hygiene, fasting and the other elements of radiant health.

I went 100% raw in the wintertime. I felt many benefits. I felt happiness in every cell in my body. My gums tightened up and I noticed I wasn’t getting any more infections. I had other benefits as well. Eventually I ran into some problems. First of all, I became very thin. This worried me. I didn't want to look that thin. (Now what I think is normal weight has changed. I've also learned to put on muscle so I don't look scrawny.) Then I was cold all the time. I was also hungry all the time. Eventually I realized that I didn't have as much energy as I used to have.

So I started eating dried fruit. Somehow this gave me a little more energy. But I never had as much energy as in my cooked days. Then I got flu symptoms. I decided to heal by fasting but I ate a small quantity of fruit. Therefore, I got even skinnier. This “FLU” just wouldn't go away. It lasted for 6 weeks. I got very skinny, but I refused to eat cooked food as I thought of it as being poison.

I started getting cramping in my feet and other weird symptoms. Had I known a few things I could have stopped that flu much sooner. Muscle cramping I later found out is a symptom of being either overly acidic or overly alkaline.

I was eating mostly oranges at that time with very little in the way of anything else. I ate small salads sporadically and not much else in the way of fruits. It wasn’t an optimal raw food diet and therefore I had to stop, as my health was in poor shape.

Going back to more cooked foods (I still ate at least 50% raw) gave me my energy back and I put on weight, but of course there were other poor health problems associated with cooked food. If I ate too much in the way of grains I’d start developing arthritis in my ankle’s and knees. I also wasn’t as happy as on the raw diet and the other benefits that I had while 100% raw, went away. But at the time I’d rather have those problems than the problems I faced on doing the raw diet but incorrectly.

Eventually I learned about eating raw and soaked oat groats by reading Gabriel Cousen’s book, “Conscious Eating.” I blended them with bananas. I also added lots of spirulina. Sometimes I would blend sunflower seeds with banana. So I tried again to go 100% raw. I did fine for about 2.5 months. Then I had a vacation coming up. I knew I wouldn't be able to handle travel and sticking 100% raw. The reason for this was because I needed my blender for just about every meal. This didn't seem practical that I should need a blender for every meal.

So I gave up eating 100% raw during my trip. Also blending oat groats with bananas was always producing loose stools for me. I eventually developed these red rashes on my face near my nose. I got those because of eating so much spirulina. I ate loads of spirulina for at least two years. It also gave me orange hands as if I were drinking a lot of carrot juice. This happened because of the high levels of beta carotene in spirulina.

Those red spots are gone now. It took about a year of going 100% raw and no spirulina. I learned that spirulina wasn't good because it had B12 analogues that could block the absorption of real B12 in my body.

*** My Raw Food Turning Point ***

Eventually I attended some talks by Dr. Douglas Graham that corrected all of my misinformation. Keep in mind that I had attended lectures by most of the world’s top raw foodists before this. They all came to NY City to lecture. But I still couldn't figure out how to do it. I even attended lectures a year before by Dr. Graham. I was open to new ideas; I just wasn't able to put them into practice for the long term.

The stuff that Dr. Graham covered at these two lectures corrected all of my false ideas about the raw diet. Without him, I would never have made it to 100% raw. The key thing I learned was that I wasn't eating enough fruit. That is why I was weak. Yet I thought I was eating a lot of fruit. But when I analyzed the calorie content in what I was eating, I realized I wasn't eating enough. Calories are important; don’t let any raw food elitist try to tell you otherwise. If calories weren’t important, then why bother eating anything at all?

Here's a great book to get you started with the teachings of my friend Dr. Douglas Graham.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/DrGrahamNutrition.html

A week after those lectures I drove with my friend and 100% raw foodist Joel Brody to Canada for a week. The night before I had my last Thai Food meal and I planned to go 100% raw for two months and see if I could do it. Having Joel on the trip was incredibly helpful. He brought lots of organic fruit and vegetables. I imbibed how to successfully do the diet in his presence.

A great point he said was that if I was craving cooked food I should just eat more raw food. That took care of the cravings pretty well. I soon realized that at least 50% of the entertainment value of my vacations were going out to all the restaurants. This was especially true as we were taking a tour of downtown Toronto and going through Chinatown. I was constantly thinking of all the restaurants I'd like to be eating in. This really made my cravings go up. I was constantly hungry for cooked food.

Joel told me that in the first year of going raw he really ate a lot. Now he eats much less and he gained back the weight he lost so he doesn't look skinny. I had to eat a lot of food since I was just starting to go 100% raw.

Later in the trip, I learned to focus my mind on all the benefits of the raw diet. I stopped myself from thinking that I could never eat in a cooked food restaurant again. I also told myself that I could eat cooked food again after two months, if I really wanted to. These psychological tricks allowed me to overcome my initial cravings.

Focusing on the health benefits and not thinking about what I was missing, reduced my cravings by 90%. Later I found out that most of the cravings were magnified by my thinking and not any actual physical craving. If you focus on the benefits of eating raw, the cravings for cooked foods reduce dramatically.

Much later on, I learned to start preparing raw food dishes that were so tasty that I didn't have cravings for cooked food anymore. The reason being is I knew I could easily satisfy my cravings through delicious raw foods. I would say that if you can learn to prepare just three tasty raw food dishes, your transition to eating 100% raw foods will be easy.

The easiest way to do this is by getting a great and easy recipe book. Frédéric Patenaude's book "Instant Raw Sensations," will do the trick. Most of the recipes can be made in 10-minutes or less and they don't require too much fancy equipment or difficult to find ingredients.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/RawSensations1.html

*** I Speak at Raw Passion – That was Great Fun ***

I was glad to be invited as one of the speakers at the Raw Passion Seminar in Pennsylvania, put together by Dave Klein and Dr. Douglas Graham. I really enjoyed doing my presentations and listening to the wisdom of the other great speakers including Dr. Timothy Trader and Karen Ranzi.

Dr. Graham had this great presentation on making simple and delicious salad dressings. He showed us how we could make a new dressing for each day for the rest of our lives. I believe he came up with over a million dressing possibilities. These were all dressings you could make in less than five minutes in your blender and sometimes with just your hands.

He also showed us how to make quick and tasty desserts. If you want to learn how to do the raw diet successfully on every level, then I highly recommend you attend any event organized by Dave Klein.

I believe that going 100% raw is easy, if you know how to do it right. Most people I've found had a hard time doing it without support. I had Joel to watch over me and help me through the initial stages. He told me the cold sores in my mouth were normal and that they were detoxification.

During the first week I had these sores in my mouth and I kept on biting myself. But they were gone in less than a week. If Joel weren't there I might have stopped my raw experiment right away because I was afraid that eating all that fruit was the problem and not that it was a simple detoxification.

I talk to Joel often and attend support group meetings whenever I can. The more you hang around 100% raw foodists the more it rubs off on you. Being 100% raw is a different way of thinking and you can only succeed once you have adopted the beliefs and habits of a successful raw foodist.

Keep in mind though that you have to be careful. Sometimes you can be doing the raw diet incorrectly and it isn't always detoxification. Check with a Hygienic doctor or health practitioner if you are having extended health problems.

*** How my Life Improved by Going Raw ***

Here are some more benefits I experienced when going 100% raw. Keep in mind going at least 50% raw I was able to overcome my depression and panic attacks, but going 100% raw gave me many other health benefits that just weren’t happening, even on a 90% raw diet.

At 100% raw I am the happiest I have ever been. Happiness is now a natural part of being alive; I don’t have to try to be happy. I also noticed that in the first month of going 100% raw, my body cleared out all the excess mucus that was in my lungs. For the first time in my life I was able to go jogging while breathing through my nose only. Just breathing gives me a high because I can breathe so much deeper. My whole body gets much more oxygen than it ever did before, and it feels fantastic.

Another major improvement is my ability to stand up for longer periods of time. As a tennis coach I used to stand for many hours at a time and I’d come home exhausted with painful feet. Only after going 100% raw, I noticed that I could stand a couple of extra hours without pain.

I never worry about getting a cold anymore. I have been sick, but that was due to eating a less than optimal raw diet. I can be around the sickest people and won’t catch a thing. It’s because germs don’t cause colds, they only show up if you have excess toxins in your body. The times I got colds were when I got a tetanus shot (I’ll never allow that again) and when I ate a lot of those raw dehydrated pizza crackers. A cold is really your body healing itself or a healing crisis.

Going 100% raw also improved my appearance. The bags under my eyes went away, my skin got much tighter. It was like a natural face lift, but for my whole body. I have more energy and at times my body begs me to exercise it.

I also feel more spiritually tuned and in harmony with nature. A big benefit of going 100% raw is that I have much less anger than I used to have. If I get angry it is less intense and for much shorter periods of time.

Life is much more enjoyable by eating this way. If you eat cooked food you only get enjoyment while the food is in your mouth. After that the pain begins. With raw food I enjoy the taste and I feel uplifted after I eat it. I also have more energy to do the things I enjoy doing.

I’ve also noticed my allergies are less severe. I don’t get infections anymore. When I had 18 stitches I didn’t take any antibiotics and I didn’t get an infection either. I knew I wouldn’t, so there was no way I was going to take those destructive antibiotics.

Athletically I have more endurance and I don’t have to work out more. I also have a distinct advantage in the hot weather. I love warm days, for me it seems to be about 7 degrees colder than it used to. On hot days I can run around the competition on a tennis court. They are overwhelmed by the heat and I am not. What an advantage the raw diet would be to professional athletes. Somehow a raw diet just makes you more resistant to hot weather. I don’t even use the air-conditioning anymore. (Save on your energy bills.)

I’ve also lost excess body fat and increased my muscle size. Exercise is what increased my muscle size. But I now look ripped. This is a great diet for natural body builders.

I also noticed I get injured less often. It’s like all the cells in my body were replaced by rubberized cells. You become rejuvenated.

Another major benefit is that I’m not as lazy as I used to be. I get much more work done and don’t have to force myself to do it. I’m also not moody anymore. I was like that my whole life, but that is completely gone. I also used to experience a mental fog after certain meals, that never happens anymore.

I’ve also noticed that my thinking is much clearer and that my creativity has increased. I also used to stutter at times, that is completely gone.

For a list of over 40 benefits of going 100% raw, please visit this page on my website.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/RawBenefits.html

I live in the United States in New Jersey. I’ve started two raw food support groups in New Jersey and New York City called “The Raw Health and Happiness Society. To learn more about them you can visit the link below, give me a call at 1-732-226-0782 or email me at rh@superbeing.com.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/SubsRawHealth.html

Roger Haeske is a Radiant Health Coach, Tennis Instructor and the author of “Think and Go Raw,” “Infinite Tennis,” and of these informative websites that will help you succeed at going 100% raw:

http://www.howtogoraw.com/success.html

http://www.howtogoraw.com/ThinkandGoRaw.html

http://www.howtogoraw.com/SuperbeingDiet.html

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Well I hope you enjoyed the article and make use of the resources I have linked to in the article as well.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Listen to My Consultation with Tommie

2005-10-21T15:38:00.000-04:00

"I Do an Hour Long Consultation with
HowToGoRaw.com member Tommie Burchard"

I wanted to give you an audio consultation that
I recorded with Tommie Burchard a member of
HowToGoRaw.com.

You too, might be able to get an hour-long
telephone consultation as a new perk of
membership to HowToGoRaw.com. Once a month I plan
to record an audio consultation with a random
member of HowToGoRaw.com. I'm sharing this
consultation with you at no charge whatsoever.

** What you'll learn in the Consultation with
Tommie **
http://www.howtogoraw.com/consultation.html

1. Sleep--how much is enough? What if you don't
have time to sleep that much?

2. Salt--some sources say that salt is essential
while others say it is a poison? Could it depend
on the individual?

3. Winter and raw--apples, oranges, and bananas
(and dates) aren't enough. Plus we need your
girlfriend's recipe book. :)

Tommie Burchard has been 100% raw since June 24,
2005. She's lost 37 pounds. This is from someone
who is on thyroid medication. People with thyroid
problems tend to have tremendous problems losing
weight. You can read all about her raw food
success story at her blog. She also has several
before and after pictures.

I share all of this information with you on the
consultation page.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/consultation.html

Eventually I plan to have a whole bunch of audio
coaching or consultation sessions recorded at
HowToGoRaw.com. Even if you don't have an audio
consultation yourself, you'll be able to learn
from the consultations that are on the site.

I hope you enjoy this free audio interview.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
Roger Haeske

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Discover the 7 Easy Tricks to Staying Raw

2005-08-14T18:27:00.000-04:00

Discover 7 Easy Tricks to Staying Raw

1. Plan ahead: have an overabundance of fruit at
your house. Make it look beautiful. Have fruits
and vegetables of many different colors spread
all throughout your kitchen.

Bring extra food with you when you travel or go
out to eat. Never assume you'll be able to get
what you want when you are away from your normal
food shopping places. Be a Boy scout and be
prepared.

2. Eat plenty of food: Many new raw foodists
fail because they eat 1/2 to 1/3 less calories
than when they ate cooked food. With low fat raw
foods, you have to learn to expand your stomach
or eat many small meals to get the same calories
you did while eating cooked food.

3. Tasty Recipes: Learn to make recipes you
really enjoy.

www.HowToGoRaw.com will show you simple and yet
delicious raw food preparation techniques. In
many cases you can make delicious meals in 5 to
15 minutes.

4. Get excited: about the benefits of eating
raw. Never focus on what you are missing out on.
Imagine how healthy you'll be, how much happier
this diet is making you feel, how much more
spiritually in tune you are, feel the extra
energy, and see yourself at your ideal weight
because of eating this way.

Get excited about the new person you will become
and how this makes you a more powerful person,
because you've managed to conquer an addiction.

Daily reread a list of positive benefits to
going raw. Here's my list of over 40 of them.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/#benefits

Going raw really does make you more personally
powerful. Many people wouldn't even dream of
going raw because they feel it's so difficult. So
congratulate yourself.

Of course, with the right information and
support it can be quite easy to go raw. But it is
a life-changing accomplishment, nonetheless.

5. Gourmet Taste Buds: Develop gourmet taste
buds. The less you use spices and complicated raw
recipes the less you will crave cooked food. It's
difficult at first but eventually you adapt and
you won't be looking for so much stimulation.

Try eating only fruit for a day. Then expand it
to two days on another occasion. This will
gradually help you forget about having to make
complicated recipes with all sorts of spices and
less than healthful ingredients like salt.

6. Eat a 100% raw food diet. When your only
option is to eat raw, you stop thinking about and
craving cooked food. What you think about is so
important to whether or not you will be
successful at a raw diet. All things originate in
thought.

7. When you start craving cooked food there is a
very simple solution. You can still eat food,
just eat more raw food. It may not be the exact
flavor or texture that you want at that time, but
it will get you over the craving. Once you are
full, you are much less likely to want to eat
cooked food. The cravings pass with time.

8. Bonus Trick: Hire yourself a Raw Food Chef.
Find one that will prepare tasty meals but be
willing to make the food according to your
specifications. If you don't want Nama Shoyu or
oils added to your recipes, a good chef will find
ways to accommodate you. When you have great
tasting food always available, then going raw is
easy.

It's mostly about taste. We are addicted to the
tastes, textures and memories of cooked foods.
You can easily replace those memories with great
raw food memories. I now associate many good
times in my life with eating raw foods.

For a raw food catering or personal chef work in
the NYC area, I highly recommend you contact
Loren Bruni at loren@lorensrawfood.com. She's a
chef at the top raw food restaurant in the city.

Even the people who work there love her raw
dishes. What she prepares for them is different
from what they serve at the restaurant. She can
make you anything from the restaurant or her own
creations.

9. One final trick. Once you are 100% raw for a
month or two, it doesn't take much willpower to
stay raw. As long as you get enough variety and
are doing the raw diet correctly. It just becomes
a habit like anything else.

*** Little or No Willpower is Necessary ***

I don't ask myself anymore if I should go to my
favorite Thai food restaurant. But when I was
still eating cooked foods, I always had the
cooked food restaurant option.

Note: This kept me THINKING about and
associating good memories to cooked food. Once
the memories are gone from your consciousness and
you have delicious raw foods available, there
isn't much of a reason to go back to eating
cooked matter.

By the way, now I can go to a cooked restaurant
and just chose what is available raw. I don't do
it often, but mostly for social occasions. You
are not limited socially at all. But at first
when going raw it is easier for you to stay away
from cooked food until you are more secure in
your new radiant health lifestyle.

Roger

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Are you having trouble staying 100% raw? Are you afraid of eating fruit? Are you sick of the time consuming effort of having to juice, sprout, dehydrate and ferment your foods? Discover the simple secrets to raw food success from the Raw Motivator and Radiant Health Coach, Roger Haeske. http://www.howtogoraw.com/health.htm for more info.

Early Humans Ate Raw and Low-Fat

2005-08-02T20:37:00.000-04:00

"More Evidence for the Optimal Raw Food Diet"

Dear Friend,

This article is based on research from the book "Natural Eating," by Geoff Bond who is a Nutritional Anthropologist. This is a fantastic book. I've quoted some pieces directly from his book. I simply leave the page number next to the quote if you want to look it up.

He has done research using Anthropology, Forensic Archeology and Comparative Anatomy to determine what the ideal diet for humans is. Though I don't completely agree with all of his conclusions about diet, I do think his findings are fascinating and can dispel many nutritional myths about what our Pleistocene ancestors actually ate.

All throughout the book you'll find evidence that our ideal diet is low in fat, high in micronutrients, high in fiber, low glycemic, low caloric density, high in volume or weight and low salt.

Pleistocene Man Facts: These are humans in the period before agriculture came to be on the planet. Approximately 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago. Agriculture started about 10,000 years ago. Before that man was mostly a gatherer and sometime hunter.

Humans lived in small groups of 35 to 50 people and needed a range of land of 200 to 300 miles to sustain themselves. With those kinds of space requirements a maximum of 600,000 people could live in the continental United States. Compare that number with the current estimate as of July 05 in the US of 295,734,134 people.

When the Aborigines (gatherer/hunter type, pre-agriculture) were the only ones living in Australia they had a filled the continent up and there was a maximum of 800,000 Aborigines there. You simply can't have 6 billion people living on the planet without the advent of agriculture and modern technology.

"Our Pleistocene ancestors had an average height some 6 inches greater than their descendants who took up farming. Today, in the opulent but still malnourished West, we have recovered only about 4 inches of the deficit." pg 45

Osteoporosis, gallstones, kidney stones, arthritis and cavities were virtually unknown to early humans. I don't know how they figure this out, but anthropologists and archeologist can tell this through the study of fossilized remains, DNA testing, etc.

Early humans weren't great hunters. At that time they had very primitive tools like a sharpened stick as a spear. They didn't even have bows and arrows. From the determinations, it appears that humans didn't make many big kills, but instead let other predators do their hunting for them and then they scavenged the remains.

In short, early humans did eat animal matter but they were by no means great hunters. And just because they could eat some animal foods does not mean that eating animal foods are the best choice, health wise for humans.

There are several things missing in humans that all carnivores and omnivores have. They have a stomach acid 10 times stronger than humans. They have a much shorter and differently shaped intestine. This means that animal foods will take much longer to get through our system and they end up rotting in there. Carnivores have the enzyme uricase to help break down the uric acid (urine) from animal's body.

The animal matter that early humans ate included, insects, shellfish, eggs, lizards, snakes, bugs, caterpillars, frogs, small game and carrion.

There are three important factors about the nutritional nature of this animal matter. Pg 34-35 Natural Eating.

1. It was very low fat no more than 3% (as against 25% fat in modern beef.)

2. The fat was very low in saturated fat and high in 'essential fatty acids' (exactly the opposite of modern supermarket meats).

3. The essential fatty acids were present in a well-defined ratio of linoleic acid to alpha linolenic acid. The range of this ratio varied within close limits of 4:1 to 1:1. It transpires that this fatty acid profile is exactly what we modern humans need too. In the average western diet this ratio is totally distorted at 32:1, and we know that this has harmful health effects. (My comments: namely heart disease.)

I'm not trying to make an argument that we need wild animal foods to get the ideal omega 3 to omega 6 ratios. This fatty acid ratio was not just in the animal foods but in the plant based foods, located in their natural environment. How do you think the herbivorous animals had this correct ratio of essential oils? It's because the plants they were eating had them in the right ratios as well.

The EFA's are naturally there in the proper ratios from wild plant foods. But we should consider if there is an adequate ratio of these fatty acids in raw vegan foods produced by modern farming techniques? There is certainly a big difference in the nutritional profile between wild foods and cultivated foods.

This is why we have to eat a raw food diet but adapted to our modern living conditions. We have to do the best we can to meet our nutrient needs with the cultivated foods we have access to. It's good to try and get as much wild food into your diet as you can.

These essential fatty acids are so important they used to be called vitamin F1 and F2. "All other fatty acids that human biochemistry needs can be made by the body from these two." pg 35

"It is thought that much of the time, our early hominid ancestors fulfilled their basic protein needs just by consuming plant foods." pg 35

"These people had a choice of hundreds of edible plants, a rich variety compared to the 30 or so found in today's supermarkets." pg 35

Geoff Bond took a sample of 50 wild vegetable foods consumed by foragers and totaled up the nutrient content for 2,600 calories worth (a day's supply).

There was a more than adequate 82 grams of protein or more accurately amino acids.

Potassium was very high and sodium was very low. The potassium to sodium ratio was 40:1. This should help alleviate your fears of getting too much potassium and not enough sodium on a raw diet.

This is about the same ratio I get when I analyze my food consumption at www.fitday.com. They had no added salt in their diets. All the sodium they ingested came from plant foods. This is sodium in its organic form made useable to us by the action of plants.

Any sodium not coming from plants is toxic to the body, this includes sea salt, real salt, and even Himalayan sea salt. If you drank a glass of sea salt you would become very dehydrated. It's not the water in sea water that would make you dehydrated, but the salt.

Another interesting point Geoff brought up in his book is that the advent of extensive cooking also did not happen until agriculture came into being. Pleistocene humans did have fire but they didn't cook very much as they didn't have the tools or possessions to make extensive cooking possible.

Vitamin C was at 540 mg. That is five times higher than what the average American consumes.

The fiber content was 62 g and five times higher than the norm for Americans. Not only that, but the fiber in these foods was soluble fiber. This is the ideal fiber for humans not insoluble fiber you find in grains and Metamucil or other fiber supplements.

Those 2,600 calories weighed 4.5 pounds. This is a much higher volume than a person on the average western diet consumes. The high fiber, nutrient and water content would naturally control your appetite. You can eat much more food like this volume wise and yet be consuming much less calories then you would from the SAD diet.

"Our prehistoric ancestors did not eat:

* Milk, cream, butter, cheese * Bread, breakfast cereals, popcorn, spaghetti, pizza, rice… * Vegetable Oils * Farmed Meat (saturated fat) * Sugars (sugar, honey, maple syrup, malt, corn syrup…)" pg 37

"The Pleistocene diet was:

* high in volume * low calorie density * high in micronutrients * high in fiber * very low fat * low glycemic * low salt" pg 37

"Evolutionary History tells us that our pre-historic diet contained soft vegetation, fruit, nuts, insects, flowers, gums, some egg and some small game.

It did not contain seeds, grains, or cereals, dairy products, farm meat, saturated fat or vegetable oils." pg 39

Our bodies have not evolved in the last 10,000 years. We still operate the best on this pre-historic diet. I'm supplying you this information to give you more evidence that a low-fat, raw food diet, high in fruits and vegetables is the optimal diet for our modern world living conditions.

Don't let anyone fool you into believing that you'll attain your best health on a high protein or high fat diet. It simply cannot happen. You might lose weight, but you can lose weight by taking diet pills, drinking coffee, smoking, taking drugs and doing chemotherapy.

I think we all can agree these are not safe ways of losing weight. Neither is a high protein all animal food diet.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Are you having trouble staying 100% raw? Do you want to do it with less struggle and make sure that you are getting all the nutrients you need? www.HowToGoRaw.com will help you succeed at achieving radiant health, happiness and fitness via the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

Get Your Raw Food and Fitness Questions Answered

2005-06-21T01:35:00.000-04:00

I've created a brand new and comprehensive forum. It's called Roger Haeske's Superbeing Forum for peak living through: Raw Foods, Fitness, Self-Help and Spirituality.

Please visit http://RogerHaeske.com/talk/index.php

to find out more.

There are already over 30 valuable posts in the forum. I think you'll enjoy reading and participating. It's free to join.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

2005-05-24T00:02:00.000-04:00

Hi Folks,

I've written directions and included pictures on how to do the tremendous Superman Pushups.

Just visit this link:

http://www.lightning.superbeing.com/AbsOfSteel.htm

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness,
Roger Haeske

The Secrets Behind -- "Raw Secrets"

2005-05-21T10:57:00.000-04:00

The Secrets Behind “Raw Secrets”
Raw Secrets Book Review and Commentary:

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Review by Roger Haeske
The Raw Motivator

So far the updated “The Raw Secrets,” has been a fantastic book. I love that he included a chapter on the Vital Law of Accommodation. He's also included a new bonus book "Optimal Breathing," by breathing expert and raw foodist Mike White. I can't wait to read that book as well.

Fred has added lots of new, and I believe, important information, to the updated version of his book. I haven't completed reading it. So what you are seeing now is a partial review.

I'll be adding more valuable information over the coming days. So come back to this page every now and then over the coming week for more updates.

What I've read so far is information that will show you the right and natural way to eat a raw food diet. Fred shows you many of the pitfalls new and experienced raw foodists run into, on their path to radiant health.

The chapter on detoxification was a little on the light side. I would have liked a little more information on that subject. But what he wrote about it was quite good. So far this book has been excellent and the best guide by a current writer on how to do an Optimal Raw Food Diet.

I'm going to mine some of the golden nuggets in the book. Stuff about what happens when you eat too much fat. What our closest primate relatives eat. What percentage of the Great Apes diet is meat, etc?

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So What are These Raw Secrets?

I'm going to let you in on some of the secrets behind Frederic Patenaude 's book “Raw Secrets.” I will give you some of the concepts he covers and add my own commentary.

Keep in mind that the conclusions I draw may not be exactly the same as Fred's. While I am drawing from his book, I'm also including my own information and experiences. So what I write below isn't necessarily purely from Fred's book unless it is something quoted directly from the book. I just want to let you know that up front.

Introduction: In the Raw

In this chapter Fred shares his experiences with the raw food diet. He tells about his ups and downs. It's a very interesting story that he has to tell. He had many problems eating raw and he shows you in the book, how he eventually solved them.

Below is a quote from his introduction that gives you an idea of the purpose of the book. From pg 11.

"Radical ideas have much more power than common advice. But in their power lies danger. Like an explosive charge, radical ideas must be handled carefully.

The raw vegan diet is such an idea. It can save your life. It can help banish “incurable” conditions. It can help you feel great all the time. It can give back your joy of living. It can give an entirely different direction to your life or turn it upside down. But it s p ractical application may be difficult. Pitfalls line the path of raw eating. Many people have fallen into them — and they will continue falling into them until they know what these pitfalls are and how to spot them.

Some people are damaging their health by eating the raw diet incorrectly. Mostly, this is because they received poor or confusing advice. This book is my antidote to the false information that is being spread in the raw food movement, hurting people as it goes. This is the book I wish someone had handed to me six years ago when I started on thi s p ath. (My emphasis) I intend it not as an introductory book on the subject, but rather as a book for those who have some knowledge of and interest in the raw diet.”

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Chapter 1: How to Determine Our Natural Diet

This is a fantastic chapter. It is quite thorough and I highly recommend every raw foodist and every person seeking health and truth should read and study this chapter.

The question of what is our natural diet and how should it be determined is attacked from several different angles. After you read this detailed chapter, I think you'll be convinced that we should eat a diet primarily of fruits and vegetables with small quantities of nuts and seeds. I think Fred does a great job of pulling together the research from several fields of scientific study into this chapter.

Nutrition is simple: Quote from pg 17

“Whenever someone tells me, “Nutrition is so complicated,” I respond: “It doesn't seem to be for the animals in the open.” I tell them that wild animals do not think of nutrition as anything complex. They simplified the matter by eating only raw, natural foods for which they are biologically designed.”

Some interesting facts from this chapter:

* Nuts and seeds are only available part of the year in the tropics and they are fresh not dried. In their wild state, they are soft, creamy and the fat content is lower.

* Primates and all animal naturally hybridize the food supply by choosing their favorites and neglecting what they don't like. If a chimp likes a certain kind of fruit, he'll naturally propagate that fruit by eating the seeds and spreading them. Fruits that aren't preferred won't be spread.

All foods are naturally hybridized, so don't be overly concerned about hybridization. You may want to reduce your intake of certain seedless fruit varieties like seedless grapes and watermelon.

Keep in mind that some fruit grows wild without the need for seeds. Bananas and papayas are examples. Other than that, you should be fine as long as you also eat plenty of vegetables and leafy greens.

* The great apes have larger canines than humans and even they eat little to know animal foods. They subsist primarily on fruits, vegetables, roots and shoots. (There is some argument that the chimps hunt these days due to a loss of habitat and a lower food supply. Even with them hunting their diet averages 5% or less in animal foods. Bonobo's eat much less in the way of animal foods. This chapter goes into detail on the diets of the great apes. It also talks about specific fruits and foods that they like to eat.

* Carnivores can swallow bones and meat without chewing and digest them because their stomach acid is ten times higher than ours is. Yet if we don't chew a kernel of corn we can see that whole, undigested piece of corn in our excrements.

This should give you a st ron g clue that we aren't carnivores. We just don't have the digestive power to handle the digestion of meat and bone that carnivores and omnivores are capable of eating.

True omnivores by the way, are also much more similar to carnivores than they are to us. They also have stomach acid which is ten times st ron ger than that of humans.

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Why Should we Base our Diet Upon what Animals Eat?

I recently had someone say to me, “Why should we base our diet upon what animals eat? This person was thinking that we as humans are superior to animals and so he believed there wasn't a good reason for comparing us to animals.

Actually, we should base our diet upon what our natural diet should really be. One of the easiest ways to determine that is to compare ourselves to our closest biological relatives the bonobo's and then the chimpanzees.

The problem with many people is that they attribute all the childhood sicknesses and diseases that people get as they age, as being the normal way of living. Therefore, why should we compare ourselves to animals if what we are doing is just fine?

It's a sad statement but, being sick is normal for most people. They have no conception of the happy, energized and disease free life they can be living.

Taking antidepressants and being obese is not healthy. But some people think that is normal and even argue that they are healthy by eating this way. They think they are completely normal and healthy with conditions such as these.

I've also come to realize that people's brains on a cooked diet often do not function at their peak level of effectiveness. They are often irrational, I know I certainly was. Cooked food got me into a depression for six and a half years. So this can explain the so-called logic of some cooked eaters.

What most people don't realize is that human diets vary tremendously and the health results vary tremendously as well. We have the capability of eating many kinds of foods without dropping dead immediately, because of this many people think they are omnivores.

However we also know that cows eat grass but in this day and age they are fed dead cow meat as well. Does that now make them omnivores? I think not.

Humans have actually been classified as frugivorous or a primarily (not exclusively) fruit eating species. Humans are also classified a s p rimates. Wouldn't it make sense that we would eat a diet similar to other primates?

The closest primate to us is the bonobo which has 99% the same DNA as humans. They eat primarily fruit and eat less than 1% of their diet from animal products and they eat very little in the way of nuts and seeds.

Wild animals don't get the diseases of man. Sure they can get sick but if they eat their wild diet, their health and strength is superior to humans. It isn't normal to get a cold three or four times a year. It isn't normal to get arthritis. It isn't normal to have asthma or allergies. All of these health conditions and many more, are directly related to a poor diet.

But the average person doesn't realize that. So when I say that we should compare our diet to that of primates that are closest to us in design, it doesn't make sense to their egotistical minds. Most people have next to no knowledge of nutrition and even less about raw food nutrition.

They are living in a delusion as to why their health is deteriorating. They think they are getting old. But we should be active, happy and living life to it's fullest till our last days. Ageing is really the accelerated disease process, it doesn't have to be this way.

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Chapter 2: Fat pg 23

Here's a great quote from pg 23:

“Our body doesn't need to eat fat in order to make fat. It can create its own fat from the other non-fatty foods that we consume. A natural diet of fruits and vegetables, with some nuts and seeds or avocado, provides essential fatty acids in sufficient quantities. Some “experts” on the subject have greatly exaggerated their benefits in order to sell their special, expensive oils. But even green vegetables contain fatty acids.”

Some Fat and Nutrition Facts: Out of total percentage of calories in the food.

* Romaine lettuce is 15% fat calories, 18% protein

* Spinach is 14% fat calories, 30% protein

* Boston lettuce is 14% fat, 25% protein

* Red leaf lettuce is 12% fat, 33% protein

* Celery is 10% fat, 12% protein

* Tomatoes are 9% fat, 12% protein

* Bananas are 3% fat, 4% protein

* Apples are 3% fat, 2% protein

* Grapes are 4% fat, 3% protein

So you can see it is essential to eat lots of vegetables and leafy greens to make sure you get enough essential fatty acids in your diet. Leafy greens and fruit do contain essential fatty acids in small quantities. If you're diet is low in fat then you should be getting a good balance of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids.

Another interesting quote from pg 23:

“It has been shown that a drop of oil retards digestion for two hours.”

Many raw foodists end up eating too much fat because they can't satisfy their hunger on vegetables alone. So if they have heard (falsely I might add) that eating lots of fruit is bad for you, then they will be forced to make up the caloric deficit by eating lots of fat.

There's a good quote in there from Dr. Graham about the problems with too much fat consumption and why that often gives people poor health results, even on a raw food diet.

If you feel tired all the time it might be from eating too much raw fat. Frederic explains how tired he used to be all the time on the high fat version of the raw diet.

Fred gives 7 tips as to how to eat your fatty foods and not go overboard. He also gives food combining tips specifically related to fats.

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Chapter 3: Protein pg 26

Chapter 4: Nuts and Seed s p g 28

Chapter 5: Dental Health and Raw Food s p g 31

Chapter 6: Grains and Beans, pg 34

Chapter 7: Detoxification, pg 37

Chapter 8: The Law of Vital Accommodation, pg 40

Chapter 9: How to Give Up Bad Habits, 42

Frederic gives an easy technique to gradually give up bad habits.

Making the argument that most change is too slow. Increase your fruits and vegetables but you can still smoke or eat meat. Assuming people can't make big changes in their diet. This leads to a cure mentality. Take a drug or supplement and all will be well. Or juicing instead of looking at the cause of the problem.

There is a problem with improving one aspect of your diet but still having other bad health habits. It's the other bad habits. Eating 100% raw is good for the very reason that it instantly stops you from doing so many bad habits.

You won't eat bread anymore or chocolate or candies or cakes. You won't have any food additives, or preservatives in your diet. It's not so much what you do but what you no longer do, that makes much of the improvement.

Quote pg 43:

“In other words, it doesn't matter so much, however healthful it may be, that you eat "lots of fruits and vegetables," that you "juice daily," and that you," work out four times a week," if, on the other hand, you indulge in coffee, bread and meat. Your health will be directly affected by your bad habits, no matter how many good ones you have. These bad habits create illness. You will not get rid of them no matter how many new good habits you implement, unless you reform your lifestyle entirely.”

I love this quote from page 44:

“You will never “burn off” the effects of your poor diet no matter how many miles you run, how many supplements you take, or how much sunshine you get.”

So many people think that they can just exercise their way to health. That they can eat all the desserts and fried food they want as long as they exercise enough. If you believe this, you are gravely mistaken and just don't understand the facts. You might be able to keep yourself thin, but health has many components and you are only as st ron g as your weakest link.

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Chapter 10: Supplements and Superfoods: pg 45

This chapter will blow you away. The problem does not seem to be that we aren't getting enough nutrients, but that we aren't absorbing or assimilating them well enough.

There is an example of people who are anemic and yet have very high levels of i ron in their cells. It's just that they can't absorb it. Upon fasting their red blood cell count actually goes up. This is because the fast helped to increase assimilation and not because more of a nutrient was added to the body.

As mentioned in the chapter on “The Vital Law of Accommodation,” if you eat toxic foods like garlic, hot peppers, raw apple cider vinegar, coffee, chocolate, etc, your body has to defend against these toxic substances. By defending against these toxins your body also decreases its ability to absorb nutrients. He included an excellent example of what happens to your lungs when you smoke.

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Do You Believe in the Enzyme Myth?

He also presents a very logical argument of why the enzymes in raw foods don't really make a big difference. It isn't the enzymes in raw foods that makes the diet so successful but the fact that we are now eating foods we were originally designed to eat.

This is a big myth in the raw food movement. But when you realize the truth of the matter, you'll know that the enzymes in fruit are mostly gone by the time they ripen. We still mostly use our digestive enzymes to digest food regardless of whether or not the food is raw or cooked.

I'll be adding more information in the coming days.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

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What is our natural diet?

2005-04-16T13:49:00.000-04:00

Should you eat according to your blood type?

Dear Friend,

If I could give one resource to family or friends who want to improve their health, it would be volume 2, issue number 3, of Just Eat an Apple, raw food magazine. This issue is jam packed with information showing you how to do an Optimal Raw Food Diet.

You can get your own copies to share with family members and friends from this link.

http://superbeing.fredraw.hop.clickbank.net

You also will get three other great issues of Just East an Apple, plus Frederic Patenaude’s books “Raw Secrets,” “Raw Soups, Salads, and Smoothies,” and 36 Tips to Succeed on a Raw Food or Vegan Diet.”

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A few years ago I got this very special issue of Just Eat an Apple Magazine. I loved just about every article in it. It is the perfect guide to show new people how to eat the raw diet correctly. It teaches what I call, The Optimal Raw Food Diet.

This issue also discusses, in a logical manner, some controversial issues in the raw food and holistic healing community. One article I liked very much was, “A New Look at Colon Hydrotherapy.” by Loren Lockman. In the article, Loren discusses why he doesn’t use colonics and what he believes happens to you, when you get a colonic.

Another controversial article was “The Blood Type Diet on Trial,” compiled by Frederic Patenaude. I'm going to be reviewing that article, further down the page and also giving you similar information about that diet, that I found in Dr. Fuhrman's book, "Eat to Live."

There’s also a fantastic article on deficiencies by Albert Mosseri. Dr. Douglas Graham writes a myth busting article, “What You Should Know about Raw Fat.” “Is One Man’s Food, Another Man’s Poison?” by Albert Mosseri.

Then there’s another great article called, “Supplements, Should You or Shouldn’t You,” by Mary Ziolo and there is, “What is our Natural Diet?” by Dover Clifton.

I think of this issue more as a great book, rather than a magazine. It will show you how to eat raw in the easiest and most healthy way I know of. The articles are as valid today as when they were written.

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Should you eat according to your blood type?

I find it interesting that we are the only species on the planet that has to eat according to their blood type. At least that is what Peter D’Adamo would have you believe in his book, “Eat Right for Your Type.”

If you had to follow that diet and you were a Type O blood type you would be forced to eat meat, to have great health according to D’Adamo. I’ve found several people, who are Type O blood types who are successful, long-term, vegan, raw foodists.

If I followed Ayurveda’s recommendations, I’d still be eating cooked foods to this day. As I am a Vata body type and they supposedly need hot foods to thrive. I’ve found most of these body type diet books and systems, simply don’t apply to someone who has gone 100% raw.

Are there any vegetarian lions, or meat eating rabbits? All the animals in a species will eat the same types of foods in the wild. There is some variation, but meat eaters don’t become vegetarians. Omnivores continue to eat a variety of foods; they don’t all of a sudden, start eating vegetables only.

Humans are frugivorous by design. This means our natural diet is predominantly fruit, but not exclusively. We also do well with easily digested vegetables. Some nuts and seeds are ok in small quantities.

We are clever enough to eat other kinds of foods and we can survive on them. But do we thrive while eating meat or cooked foods? I think you know the answer to that. I certainly think these are less than ideal foods.

A very interesting point in Frederic’s article is that chimpanzees and gorillas also have the A,B,O blood types and that there is DNA evidence that humans have had these different blood types for 5 million years.

D’Adamo claims that certain blood types evolved with the introduction of agriculture 10,000 years ago. His evidence for this is severely lacking.

He also seems to favor the Type O or meat eating blood type people. Here’s an interesting quote that Frederic attributes to Dr. Michael Klapper in his discussion of the problems with the blood type diet, "...the epitome of focus, drive... "hardy and strong, fueled by a high protein diet" (is he describing a Type O "master race"?), he paints the "more vegetarian" Type A as submissive tofu eaters, "biologically predisposed to heart disease, cancer and diabetes." (p. 97).

"He paints Type A's with personalities "...poorly suited for the intense, high-pressured leadership positions at which Type 0's excel." (p. 142), stating that, in pressure situations, people with Type A blood "tend to unravel" and "become anxious and paranoid, taking everything personally."

Another great point in the article is the discussion of Dr. Klapper of why some people seem to fail at eating a vegan diet and how to properly handle that situation. The insights are incredible. The same theory I believe applies to raw foodists. Some people simply need a longer transition time to allow their body to get used to handling different nutrients.

If you are a Type A blood type D’Adamo claims that drinking coffee and red wine is good for you. That is clearly, very dangerous and bad advice as these are toxic to all humans.

His recommendations on what types of fruit certain blood types are allowed to eat aren’t backed up by any science. It appears that much of his information was simply made up.

Dr. Fuhrman came to a similar conclusion in his book, ‘Eat to live.” Here is a quote,

“I tried hard to be fair to D’Adamo because I know there is some evidence in the scientific literature that genetics and even blood type can predispose one to certain illnesses, such as heart attacks and some cancers, but his claims are so ridiculous that it leaves me with no choice but to be amazed that he could actually make such mind-boggling claims without supporting documentation or scientific studies. Furthermore, in reviewing the references mentioned in this book, he did not include even a small fraction of the hundreds of studies performed on this subject by scientists in the past thirty years. All the major studies I found documenting the relationship between blood type and disease were surprisingly missing.”

Here’s another quote from “Eat to Live.”

“D’Adamo’s book mixes some interesting factual information about blood types with a whole lot of far-fetched assertions that have no basis in fact. Most of them are just plain wrong.”

Finally, a quote from Dr. Fuhrman in regards to the risk of getting heart disease and cancer and what blood type has to do with it.

“When considering all the genetic risk factors together, we must conclude that environmental influences on atherosclerosis are much stronger than the genetic ones. Even if we combined all the genetic influences and stratified the risk of heart disease or cancer in individuals in a more accurate way than blood type alone, we would still find that environmental factors are more important. Cholesterol levels, body-weight, smoking, physical activity, food choices, and blood pressure have been shown to have a much stronger influence on disease risk than blood grouping.”

There is much more supporting information in this article and in Dr. Fuhrman’s book. I hope I have at least made you aware that “Eat for Your Blood Type Diet,” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of this great issue of Just Eat an Apple and share it with your friends and family members. You can get this issue, plus three other issues, “Raw Soups, Salads and Smoothies and the book “Raw Secrets,” by Frederic Patenaude.

Frederic’s book “Raw Secrets,” is the main part of this package that you get. It is just about the only raw book I know of, that tells you how to do an Optimal Raw Food Diet. It’s a great book and it shows you many of the pitfalls that a beginning raw foodist runs into and how to avoid them. I highly recommend this book and all the bonuses he’s included with it.

Please remember to share that Just Eat an Apple issue and “Raw Secrets” with friends and family members. It can change their lives and it can change your life as well. Just go to this link and you can get this valuable health and raw food information.

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To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Why you don't need Self-Discipline to Succeed

2005-03-26T16:27:00.000-05:00

If you have to use self-discipline in your work,
you are doomed to failure.

I don't have a self-disciplined bone in my body.
We all do things every day. We move towards
things we like and love, and move away from
things that cause us pain.

Do you think I'm writing this article because I
am self-disciplined? Hell no! I'm writing it
because I get pleasure out of doing this - just
as I get pleasure from exercising, and I get
pleasure from eating a raw food diet.

Many people can't imagine gaining pleasure from
writing, exercising, or eating a Vegan Raw Food
Diet. But I, in fact, love doing these things.
However, there was a time in my life when I was
in high school and college that I hated
computers, writing, lifting weights and eating
fruits and vegetables.

So how did I do it? Did I use self-discipline to
make myself all of a sudden like these things?
Absolutely not. I am horrible at self-discipline.
But I am a motivated person as all people are.
Every single one of us on this planet is
motivated towards something.

Many of us are very self-disciplined at watching
TV, going to movies, playing video games, surfing
the web, eating out at our favorite restaurants,
or hanging out with friends. So we are all self-
disciplined.

Get it out of your mind that you lack self-
discipline. You can get yourself to do just about
anything if you really want to do it.

Life is about pleasure and not about self-
discipline. You must learn to master the two main
motivating forces in life: Pleasure and Pain.

Why do we file our income taxes? For most of us
it's not for the pleasure of it, but to avoid the
pain of going to jail or paying heavy fines. Why
do we want to go on vacation? Because we picture
all the enjoyment we will have.

So the key question is: how was I (and how will
you) be able to get yourself to do things that
you currently don't like?

There's obviously going to be a need of change
in your mindset. Are you going to have to force
yourself against your own will? This, I'm afraid,
can't be done for any great length of time.

What you have to do is to associate in your mind
more pleasure with the new activity and more pain
with the old activity. Then you have to keep
consciously doing this until you have established
a new habit. A new habit usually takes about 21
days to solidify, though it could take only a week.

Why is it that I enjoy writing now? It's not the
actual writing I enjoy, it's the ability to
express my ideas. I have a burning desire to help
people discover their full potential. Whenever I
discover something really helpful, I love sharing
it. That's just my personality type.

Several years ago I realized that writing is one
way, I can reach many people both via the
internet and through authoring regular books. My
desire for expression and the income I could
receive from writing overpowered my absolute
disgust at writing.

I also had a major change in my outlook in 1987
so that I felt I had something to write about. I
started keeping a journal and often wrote in it
several times throughout the day. Eventually I
realized that I liked writing. I especially
realized that I like writing letters to friends.
I have no problem whipping out long emails. I
know that most people are not like that. But this
is all related to desire.

How did I get myself to do a Raw Food Vegan
Diet? By reading books about the diet. I was so
impressed by what could be done I figured what
the heck, I'll give it a try. Right away, I got
out of a six and a half year depression.

Eliminating the pain of depression motivated me
to do the raw diet. If I ate at least 50% raw
foods throughout the day, I felt fine. When I had
days where I ate all cooked food, I quickly got
back into a depressed state. This has happened
over and over so I know it is the cooked food
causing this. In fact, I had tried several other
diets but they didn't have anything close to the
effects of a raw diet. So I don't think it was a
placebo effect.

But that was only a 50 to 70% raw diet. Yet I
knew there were many other benefits I would
achieve if I could go 100%. One day I ** decided
** to go 100% raw by focusing on all the benefits
and equating cooked food to being worse than
smoking. If you know me, I hate smoking with a
passion. So these things worked to get me started
off.

Then I said I'd just do it for one month. If I
don't like it, I can always go back. I gave
myself the freedom to go back - hoping I would
choose to stay raw. During the initial week, I
had a hard time. I was on vacation and we were
passing all these great restaurants. I started
focusing on all the meals I was missing out on.
This made me very hungry.

Then I realized what I was subconsciously doing.
So I changed my thoughts and focused on how well
I was feeling and on all the amazing benefits
that I would reap from doing this diet. I also
realized that one day it would be easy for me to
eat raw when it became a habit.

That day has come. I never think about going out
to cooked food restaurants anymore. That desire
has completely left me. To completely get rid of
the desire for cooked food took me about a year.
But each week was easier than the week before.

You can train yourself to like anything. If you
like it or love it, you will be very self-
disciplined. So remember to use the force of
desire and you'll never fail again by trying to
use the concept of self-discipline or will power.
This desire you create must be a raging desire.
It must be really strong to get you over the
hurdle.

I recently read a fantastic book that will teach
you how to find out what you ** really ** want
out of your life. The book is by Jack Zufelt and
is called, "The DNA of Success." In it Jack shows
you how to find your Core Desires. Once you find
your Core Desires, they will unleash the
Conquering Force of Desire within you. You will
be motivated by desire and not self-discipline to
achieve your dreams.

If you are like many other people and don't know
what you want out of life then this is the book
for you. Jack also has audio programs so that you
can Unleash your Conquering Force while driving
to work. Make sure to check out his interview
with Mike Litman which can be found at this link
as well.

To find out more just click on this link.
http://www.dnaofsuccess.com