IN THIS ISSUE

1. Current News and Insights (Raw Site, Junk Food Giggles, Random Joke, Did you know?, Name that fruit, Raw Secrets, Fruit of the Month, Free Raw Food journal!)

2. Super Memorial Week Sale! Vita-mix 4500 Blender, Solo Star II Juicer, Raw In Ten Minutes, EasyGreen Sprouter, Excalibur 2500 Dehydrator!

3. Interview with Tonya Kay

4. Gourmet and Simple Recipes (Green Power Smoothie, RAWMA-SEAN, Zucchini Pasta with Hearty Tomato Sauce, Garlic Bread Sticks, Cosmic Bliss Balls)

5. Informative Articles (In the raw, Professor says we are what we eat, Staying Raw, What’s not cooking in Berkeley?, Raw food diet causes men and women to lose weight)

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1. Current News and Insights

-Great Raw Website! L.O.V.E Raw
Check it out here!

- Junk Food Giggles
Labels : The government will be requiring new food labels that are more specific. Products will now be labeled: no fat; low fat; reduced fat;
and fat, but great personality.

Fast Food : It's called "fast" food because you're supposed to eat it really fast. Otherwise, you might actually taste it.

Amount of pizza eaten each day in U.S. is 75 acres!

-Random Joke of the Month
A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.
Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he's absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. "I'm so sorry, auntie, I've eaten all of your peanuts!"
"That's okay, dearie," the aunt replied. "After I've sucked the chocolate off, I don't care for them anyway."

-Did you know?
Bees must fly an average distance equivalent to three times around the Earth in order to gather one teaspoon of honey. (WOW)

-Name the below fruit and get 1 free copy of "12 Steps to Raw Foods". One person will win! Send the answer to alex@rawguru.com.



-Last month's fruit was the Skunk Cabbage. The Skunk Cabbage is a large-leafed plant that grows in wet areas, especially near streams, ponds, marshes, and wet woods. It is easy to recognize, with its huge leaves rising directly from the ground. The fruit heads house numerous round, berry-like fruits, each containing one seed. In August the fruit head falls apart. The fruits lie on the ground—to be eaten, to decompose, or to germinate (either in the fall or next spring). It is said to be helpful in epilepsy, and convulsions during pregnancy and labour. It is an ingredient in well-known herbal ointments and powders. Externally, as an ointment, it stimulates granulations, eases pain, etc.

-The Raw Secrets:
The Most Acclaimed Raw Food Book! Did you know that you can double your energy levels and rejuvenate your body with raw foods? But warning: not all raw food diets are the same! Find out the truth about raw in the bestseller, “The Raw Secrets” -- For more information, click below

-Fruit of the month: Tomatillo
The tomatillo or husk-tomato (Physalis philadelphica) is a solanaceous plant cultivated in Mexico and Guatemala and originating from Mesoamerica. Various archaeological findings show that its use in the diet of the Mexican population dates back to pre-Columbian times. Indeed, vestiges of Physalis sp. used as food have been found in excavations in the valley of Tehuacán (900 BC–AD 1540). In pre-Hispanic times in Mexico, it was preferred far more than the tomato (Lycopersicon sp.).

Read more about the tomatillo here!

-Start your Free raw food journal here !

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3. New Interview

-Click here to read an interview with Tonya Kay!

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4. Gourmet & Simple Recipes

Green Power Smoothie
Raw in Ten Minutes by Bryan Au

2 kiwis
1 pear
1 banana
1 orange
Some pineapple chunks
Some sunflower sprouts
1-2 tsp. Vita-Mineral Green Powder
Squeeze of Lime (optional)

Put all the ingredients into the Blend-Tec blender and blend until smooth. It is always good to drink a green power smoothie every now and then to get all the
green power. With Vita Mineral Green Powder you know you are getting a lot of the best greens. Now you can be eco green and drink green and we will all have
harmonious, healthy, peaceful loving world.

RAWMA-SEAN
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sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or walnuts
sea salt (optional)
nutritional yeast (optional)

Put into coffee or nut grinder, grind into powder.

Zucchini Pasta with Hearty Tomato Sauce by Alex Malinsky
Serves 2-3 people

2 zucchinis
1 pint cherry tomatoes
2 tbs. olive oil
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
2 cloves of garlic
1-2 dates

Take the zucchini and spiral them in the Saladacco. Put the rest of the ingredients in a blender and blend everything till smooth. Pour the tomato sauce
on top of the zucchini and enjoy!

Garlic Bread Sticks by Alex Malinsky
Serves 3-4 people

2 cups ground golden flaxseeds
1 cup almonds
1 cup apples
1 large juicy tomato
3 tsp. sea salt
2 tbs. olive oil
2 tsp. garlic powder
1/3 cup pure water

Combine everything in a food processor and process till well mixed. Shape into bread sticks and dehydrate at 110 degrees for 18-24 hrs. or until crisp.

Cosmic Bliss Balls by Alex Malinsky
Serves 1-3 people

1 cup sunflower seeds or any nut/seed
1 cup raisins or 1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1 tbs. carob
1 tbs. coconut oil
1/2 tsp. sea salt

Process everything till smooth (except coconut flakes) Roll into balls, then coat the balls into the coconut flakes. Chill in the freezer until ready to serve.

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5. Articles of the Month!

In the raw Local woman’s mostly uncooked recipe places second in national contest
By Judy Grigoraci

Stacey Angel entered the world of raw foods preparation and dining after a pamphlet caught her eye. It explained the concept and gave a telephone number for further information. She called it and hasn’t looked back.

The Charleston woman recently talked about her initiation one year ago into this new way of eating and viewing nutrition: “I took Sally Miller’s raw foods class that she conducts in her home in Sherwood Forest. It was four hours of a broad overview of raw foods. Sally is a wonderful resource and great mentor.

“I went to her because, after looking at all the food fads out there, I was confused about what could be considered ‘good’ for you. The safest and single-most universally agreed-upon approach seems to be fresh fruits and vegetables.”

Click here to finish reading this article.

Professor says we are what we eat
By Tommy Simmons

Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University, drew applause from the International Association of Culinary Professionals crowd when he said that "cooking may be the key to what makes us human."
Wrangham admitted that his hypothesis is radical. Some anthropologists dismiss cooking and describe it as something humans do for symbolic reasons, he said.

Wrangham disagrees and maintains that Charles Darwin looks increasingly perceptive in his claim that the art of making fire may have been the greatest discovery ever made.

Click here to finish reading this article.

Staying Raw
by Thomas Keenliside

You've just made one of the most crucial, health-affirming decisions in your life – you've decided to stop consuming cooked foods. Now the real adventure begins - how to stay on your raw food path. Not only are you swimming upstream, against the currents of your surrounding social life, but you are also hearing diverse and conflicting messages about what you should and shouldn't be eating. You must remain strong and steadfast in your sense of purpose.

Click here to finish reading this article.

What’s not cooking in Berkeley?
Raw food’s on the menu at the Art Museum’s Café Muse By Jonathan King, Public Affairs

It’s sometimes hard to recall that Berkeley was once just another American town, whose citizens cooked, served, and ate what Americans everywhere did. Then, in the early 1970s, a new breed of restaurant broke the Boy-R-Dee mold — along with a handful of places where Berkeleyans could shop for interesting foods to prepare at home. Patricia Unterman’s Beggar’s Banquet, Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse, Victoria Wise’s Pig by the Tail (a French-style charcuterie occupying the space where the Cheeseboard Pizza Collective now thrives), the Cheeseboard itself — all opened in quick succession, feeling their way toward success with a reliance on enthusiastic but largely self-taught labor, an ad hoc supply chain, and the curiosity of their clientele.

Click here to finish reading this article.

Raw food diet causes men to lose 21.8 lbs, women 26.4 lbs

By Larry Hobbs
Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:11 pm Email this article

A raw food diet causes an average weight loss of 21.8 pounds in men and 26.4 pounds in women according to a recent study from Germany.

Subjects: 216 men, 297 women
The study looked at 216 men and 297 women who had been on a raw food diet for an average of 3.7 years.

15% of men and 25% of women were underweight
Body mass index (BMI) was below the normal range of, that is less than 18.5, often referred to as underweight, in roughly one out of every seven men (14.7 percent) and one out of every four women (25 percent).

30% of women had stopped menstruating
Approximately 30 percent of the women had stopped having their periods. The higher the amount of raw food that they ate, the more likely it was. Women who ate a diet containing more than 90 percent as raw foods were more likely to stop menstruating than women eating a more moderate raw food diet.

Conclusion: “A strict raw food diet cannot be recommended long-term"
“The consumption of a raw food diet is associated with a high loss of body weight,” the authors of the study concluded. “Since many raw food dieters exhibited underweight and amenorrhea [loss of menstruation], a very strict raw food diet cannot be recommended on a long-term basis.”

Comment: I am not convinced it is so bad
I am not convinced that the changes seen are all that harmful. I would like to see the results of a study looking at people who have been on a raw food diet for a long time, maybe 20 years or more, and see what they health of these people are. The only concern I can think of is that a loss of menstruation might also weaken the bones of women which could be a problem when they get older. But the advantage might be a reduction—perhaps a large reduction—in the risk of breast cancer.

Source: http://fatnews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/1144/

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