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Mother Nature beckons us into the sun and we go skipping down the beach, gliding on the shimmering surfboard, sitting quietly on a high rock. Being in nature is almost timeless, magical — and then we get hungry. Picnics allow for a long day out of the house without spending extra cash on fast food. It’s all about preparing ahead while keeping it easy, healthy and quick. As you pack your picnic basket think about balancing these three food classes:

- Chlorophyll: green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, celery, parsley, kale and sprouts.

- Fats: avocados, olives, nuts, seeds, coconuts, unheated olive and seed oils.

- Sweet fruits: apples, peaches, pears, grapes and watermelon with seeds.

Notice that animal flesh and dairy products are not recommended because of their dense, slow-metabolizing quality; they also decay quickly in the sun. Instead, highly nutritious organic plant-based food is encouraged.

Chlorophyll, also known as “liquid sunshine,” is the blood of plants; it keeps the entire planet alive and well, and it will revitalize you, too. The plants absorb and organize the sunlight; eating plant food transfers the vital sun energy directly to you, undiminished. Green leafy vegetables are overall the best source of iron and heal anemia; they alkalize your blood and boost immunity, while detoxifying the liver of heavy metals and pollution.

Get the summer glow — eat unheated plant fats for beauty. Raw plant fats optimize your brain function, lubricate your joints, make your skin and hair shine, and allow for a longer-lasting high energy level. Yes, you want them! The craze against fats applies mostly to cooked fats. When oil is heated it breaks down into a carcinogenic molecular structure that cannot be absorbed by the body, leading to weight gain. In contrast, eating avocados, olives, and fresh coconut flesh can help a person lose weight because these fats contain lipase enzymes, which allow body fat to be burned.

Sweet fruit is a summertime favorite; it is the optimal fuel for our sparkly brains and cognition. Choose fruits with seeds. Seedless fruits such as bananas, grapes, oranges and watermelon are bred for certain genetics and thus are hybrid foods that confuse the body’s metabolic process. It’s important to eat this quickly-digestible fruit alone or before the denser slowly-digestible foods such as nuts, breads, and animal products to avoid gas, bloating and constipation.

“Better than a Sandwich” Picnic Wraps

1 bunch romaine lettuce, 1 avocado, 1 tomato

1 cucumber, 1 box of sprouts, tamari or soy sauce

Layer sliced veggies on a romaine leaf topped with sprouts, drizzled with tamari sauce. Roll it up. Breathe and bite in!

Also enjoy this educational article at http://coastviewsmag.com/easy-healthy-picnic-foods

“When Health is absent, Wisdom cannot reveal itself,
Art cannot manifest, Strength cannot fight,
Wealth is useless and Intelligence cannot be applied.”
Herophilus

Have you been wanting to…
Boost your energy and vitality?
Stop your cravings and binges?
Break out of a rut and live YOUR best life?

In 300 B.C. the Greek doctor Hippocrates, considered to be the founder of modern medicine, said the famous words, “Let FOOD be thy medicine“. So here is your invitation to allow the food to work on you at the cellular level.

You have a health bank account. The more deposits you make (healthy foods), the more your capital grows. Withdrawals from a full account are barely noticeable. Withdrawals from an empty account create unmanageable deficits.  To grow your health bank account and become rich practice the following principles:

The 5 Transformative Principles of Eating

(inspired by Grace Purusha)

1. Eat only when hungry. Stop when full.
2. Natural foods – the ones that don’t come in a wrapper or a box.
3. Alive foods with enzymes (aka life force) still intact
4. Simple foods. Have 1-2 items on your plate. It’s harder to digest a pile of stuff.
5. Clean & Pure- organic food with minimal added sugars, chemical coloring, preservatives.

What you put in is what comes out.
Get curious, what do you want for yourself?
Put into your body only that which nourishes or rejuvenates you.

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Whether you want to heal a health condition, boost your energy level or experience fulfillment and ease around food, read on to find out the one ingredient in your meal that just might be a key to your success.

Ima’s Story

In the year 2004 Ima was diagnosed with Stage IV Colon and Liver Cancer. Ima was a vibrant 52 year old woman with a golden main of a lioness and a contagious laughter that was much larger than her petite 5’2″ frame . A skillful and caring nurse by profession, Ima had delivered thousands of babies across the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. Devastated and helpless in the face of a “seemingly” sudden terminal illness Ima laid in bed empty of the bigger-than-life laughter. And I, her daughter-in-law, was her care-giver for the last 3 months of her life.

“I don’t understand,” Ima would say to me “I eat a lot of fresh salads and fruits, I exercise, I pray. How did this happen to me?!” And then Ima would answer her own question “I know where I made the mistake. Cancer did not just suddenly happen to me. For the last year, since my youngest boy had been deported back to Israel, every time I ate I would be crying, tears falling into my plate. I cried and I cried and I was all alone. I should have been blessing my food with joy and gratitude, instead of putting more sadness and despair into my body. After a whole year of eating tears, my body simply could not take it any more.”

In this article I pass on to you a small piece of Ima’s legacy.
Her message about food and eating is simple:
Our own state of mind as we prepare and eat each meal is just as important of an ingredient as the food itself. Choose consciously WHAT you put in your body and HOW you do it.

Do you have a story of wisdom about food and eating? Would you be willing to share your story by writing it down in the “Comments” form below?

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2 servings

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1 Banana
1 Orange, pealed
1 bunch Parsley
1 Tbs. Apple Cider Vinegar
1 Tbs. Bee pollen
2 Tbs. Cacao nibs
1 pinch Cayenne
1 cup Water

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Olga: “Dr. Green Apple, please tell us why so many people are raving about how INVIGORATED they feel when they include one or more uncooked dishes into their regular diet.”

Dr. Green Apple: “When I am fresh and JUICY I contain within myself a magical ingredient called ENZYMES. Enzymes are protein molecules that enable me to sprout and grow from a tiny seed into a ripe fruit. Basically, enzymes are “miniature powerhouses” that make everything alive and growing and that is perhaps why humans who eat more raw uncooked foods, full of enzymes, report feeling “switched ON“.

Olga: “Are Enzymes not present in the cooked food?”

Dr. Green Apple: “Enzymes are active, or “ALIVE“, in uncooked food. Once a food is heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit, the enzymes chemically degrade, or “die”. Think of it this way – if you put your self in the oven, would you still be alive?”

Olga: “Hmm, you’ve got a point there, Dr. Green Apple. So the more living food I eat, the more alive and INVIGORATED I become?”

Dr. Green Apple: “Sure, but don’t take my word for it, EXPERIMENT yourself! And while you’re experimenting you are going to find out another MAJOR health benefit of eating more raw food.”

Olga: “What is it?”

Dr. Green Apple: “I don’t want to bombard you with too much information in one day. I hear you humans get tired quickly and I need to do something about this. Just look out for the HEALTH BENEFIT # 2 coming out next month. ”

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.We had previously discussed how improper food combining can cause gas, belching, heartburn, tiredness, weight gain, and accumulation of toxins in the body. Here are the three golden rules to make your new practice of conscious food combining a total success.

Three Rules:

1. Eat these foods alone: melons, fruits, liquids
   Here is a fruit chant for you – “Eat them alone or leave them alone”
2. Do NOT combine protein and starches. Hydrochloric acid is necessary to digest protein. Starch neutralized the acid and the protein does not digest properly.
3. Do NOT eat lighter foods such as liquids and fruit WITH or AFTER consuming heavier foods such as nuts, seeds, proteins, starches and heavy veggies.

Cheers to fantastic digestion!

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If you liked this article, you might also like  The Importance of Proper Food Combining

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When food and eating are interlaced with guilt and shame, daily living becomes one long walk to the guillotine. Alice was twenty years old. One late winter night when she had just finished painting an image of two dolphins playing in the water ~ yellow, blue, orange acrylic paint crusty on her small hands and face~ Alice wobbled over to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

From the bright white emptiness she grabbed a lonely vanilla soy yogurt. And with the refrigerator door still open, her eyes half-closed, she mindlessly ate the yogurt with a black plastic spoon.

It was when Alice had discarded the empty yogurt container into the blue trash can in the kitchen pantry that something exploded in her mind, “It’s two o’clock in the morning, you just ate a yogurt and it’s going to make you fat, fat, fat! And nobody is going to like you, and everybody is going to hate you!” Alice’s feet became cold. She stumbled her way back into the living room and plumped her brick-of-a body onto the dark blue papasan chair. Her face fell down into her lap like a ripe Red Delicious apple and she sobbed.

All was quite except for a distant melody coming from a car parked outside in the snow. It was Sade singing,

“you think i’d leave you down when you’re down on your knees
No I wouldn’t do that.
And when you’re on the outside baby and you can`t get in
i will show you you’re so much better than you know.”

The following morning Alice woke up late and the first thing she did was pull out the phone book from under the kitchen table and look under the therapist section for someone who specialized in eating disorders. Alice was ready to ask for help.

Do you ever experience incidents of gas, bloating, low energy or weight gain? And if so, do you simply take Tums, drink a Red Bull, or harness yourself to a treadmill only to have your symptoms reappear in the future? What if I told you that the root of your discomfort may lie in the combining of incompatible foods in one meal.

Recently I was assisting my friend, Elaina Love , a master raw food chef during her gourmet raw food preparation class at Cafe Soulstice San Mateo, CA. “Cleansing and Detoxing with Raw Foods” was the theme. There were about thirty people in the class, all excited to learn how to make energy soup, green power smoothies, and low-glycemic desserts. But the fist thing Elaina spoke about was the importance of food combining.

What is food combining?

Food combining is the combination of foods we put down the digestive track in one sitting. Lets imagine a decorative glass bottle filled in layers with different-colored sand. After eating a meal our stomach may look similar to such a sand bottle. The only difference is that the food does not stay permanently in the stomach like the sand in the bottle. The food transits out. And it is the transient time for each food group that is of interest to us in the subject of food combining.

First lets identify the different food groups:

• Animal proteins: flesh foods, dairy, eggs
  Dense oily proteins: seeds, avocados, nuts and oils
• Starches: corn, artichokes, carrots, potato family, all grains and beans
• Low starches: all green leafy veggies, sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, peppers
• Fruits
• Melons

Now lets see how long it takes for each food group to leave the stomach:

• Water: 5-10 min.
• Juice: 15-20 min.
• Fruit and melons: 20-45 min.
• Sprouts: 1 hour
• Most vegetable: 1-2 hours
• Grains and beans: 1-2 hours
• Protein: 3-4 hours
• Animal flesh food: 6-8 hours

Have you noticed how fruit leaves the stomach in less then an hour, while the dense oily proteins like seeds and nuts stay in the stomach for 3-4 hours. So if we first eat nuts and then on the top of it put fruit (or eat fruits and nuts together), the fruit is going to be ready to get out of the stomach in no time, but will have nowhere to go because there is something still being digested below it. So the fruit will just sit on the top and ferment, creating incidents of gas, bloating, heartburn, low energy and weight gain.

Fear not my friends, Tums and the gang maybe going out of business, but there is a new sheriff in town- proper food combining. Sure, go head and follow a few rules, after all, what do you have to lose except constipation.

If you liked this article, you might also like   Three Golden Rules for Fantastic Digestion

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Are you sick of being sick? Have you been relying too much on medicines and drugs to cure whatever ails you? In 300 B.C. the Greek doctor Hippocrates, considered to be the founder of modern medicine, said the famous words, “Let FOOD be thy medicine”. In 2007, hundreds of health specialist gathered at the “Extreme Health” seminar in Los Angeles, CA. and at the end of the day it was agreed that, yes, 80% of human well-being -physically, psychologically, and spiritually- depends on the food we eat. Are you interested to find out how food can help you?

For a comprehensive understanding, lets look at both sides of the coin of food as medicine: first, how nutritionally, food alone may not be enough to maintain your health and second, how food offers a missing link even the most expensive nutritional supplement can never dream about.

There is a debate that in today’s polluted environment the nutritional value of food is much lower than it was at the time of Hippocrates. The soil is too depleted some say, after all minerals come from the soil and not the plants. And if in the past, one could eat just a few carrots to get the Recommended Daily Value of Vitamin A, today one would have to eat a train wagon worth of carrots. Thus is the rise of vitamin and mineral supplements – a train wagon worth of carrots in a tiny pill.

“There are about 60 nutrients known at this time to be essensial to human nutrition,” says Donna Gates, the author of The Body Ecology Diet, “Yet even if you swallowed a mega-vitamin/mineral pill consisting of generous quantities of all these nutrients, you could not maintain your health.” And this is because the whole foods contain elements (spiritual essences) essential to our health that modern medicine/science has not yet identified. Our arrogance leads us to believe we can duplicate the intricate relationships among these components that nature provides.

Direct contact with Nature

“The benefits which man can enjoy once he creates informational contact with a small space of Nature are much greater than just [nutritional] help in the struggle against disease.” ~ Anastasia

In the series of books by Vladimir Megre The Ringing Cedars of Russia Anastasia shares most fascinating insights into the nature of Man’s existence on Earth; Man and Earth being two living organisms in a co-creative relationship.

Anastasia states that “Every seed a Man plants contains within itself an enormous amount of information about the Universe. Nothing made by human hands can compare with this information either in size or accuracy. Through the help of these data the seed knows the exact time, down to the millisecond, when it is to come alive, grow, what juices it is to take from the Earth how to make use of the rays of the celestial bodies – the Sun, Moon and stars, what it is to grow into, what fruit to bring forth. These fruits are designed to sustain Man’s life. More powerfully and effectively than any manufactured drugs of the present or future, these fruits are capable of counteracting and withstanding any disease of the human body. But to this end the seed must know about the human condition. So that during the maturation process it can satiate its fruit with the right correlation of substances to heal a specific individual of his disease, if indeed he has it or is prone to it.”

According to Anastasia the seed can be directly informed about the condition of a given Man as follows: right before planting, hold the seed under your tongue to code with the information from your saliva; then blow on it lightly, warming it with your breath, so it will know everything that is within you; then hold it out in your hand, presenting the seed to the celestial bodies, the planets will help it! Now informed, during its maturation process, the seed-fruit will pick up from the Universe and the Earth the optimum blend of energies needed specifically for you.

Also it is recommended to stand barefoot on the soil itself, right before planting the seed and during the maturation period, because through perspiration from one’s feet come substances (toxins, no doubt) containing information about bodily diseases. The information is taken up by the seedling. It transmits it to the fruit, which will thus be enabled to counteract diseases.

How fascinating these ideas are, don’t you think?
May these ideas be like seeds planted in your fertile mind. And at the first signs of Spring in your Heart, may these seeds blossom into fulfilling actions.