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In this Newsletter you will experience:
- Juice Feasting Article Answers
- Intermediate Success - Popular Blog Post
- Raw Success - What People are Saying!
- New products - Superfoods Galore!
- More "At Cost" Specials & Coupon Code!
- Shining the Spot Light - Mark & Natasha
Angela and I are now in Golden Bay, New Zealand. We will be here for two months and then we may be going to Thailand. I'll definitely keep you updated with our whereabouts. I have been putting a lot of energy into finding new Superfood products for our website. I am excited to share with you the new products below. Additionally, over the next few months, there will be brand new Superfood products that have not hit the US Market. I am in the process of sourcing them now. Exciting!
Last month's Juice Feasting article generated a lot of questions. The information here is a general answer to them all.
The less your body has to work on digesting food, the lower your metabolism goes and the more efficient your body becomes. When you are only drinking juices your body doesn't need to work as hard during digestion and this is why the metabolism decreases. Think of the metabolism as an engine of a car. The more you rev the pedal the more energy is exerted and the faster the car goes. The less solid food you eat, the less you have to "rev the engine of your body" to digest it. For a car engine and the body, the more you rev the engine during its lifetime, the earlier it is going to burnout and die.
The more you leave out of your diet, the less energy is exerted in digesting food and the lower your metabolism becomes. The further you go down this step ladder, the more your metabolism decreases:
Carnivore
Vegetarian
Vegan
Whole Food Vegan
100% Raw Food Eater - Unbalanced (eating all day long)
100% Raw Food Eater - Balanced (consistent)
Blended Raw Food Diet
Juice Feasting
Juice Fasting
Water Fasting
Air
Juice Feasting IS a GREAT thing. You expel masses of waste on a cellular level during this process. Since you have less obstruction on a cellular level, your body becomes a more efficient biological machine, absorbability increases, and you need less food to maintain even higher energy levels. Isn't this what we want??? The metabolism doesn't need to work as hard and therefore you are going to live longer (you are not revving that car engine so much, shortening its life).
Physically, it can be very easy to maintain your weight after a Juice Feast. Your body DEMANDS the food that will keep you well after the feast. It can't handle those older processed foods anymore and it is far more likely that someone will make better solid food choices, after Juice Feasting.
The issue lies where some people emotionally can't keep up with their physical body and they can't handle eating less food responsibly. If the "100% Raw Food Eater - Unbalanced" goes on a 92 day Juice Feast, they would do well to aspire to become a "100% Raw Food Eater - Balanced", or there is a possibility that they may gain weight. The majority of raw food eaters are not balanced on their diet and they eat all day long, overlapping meals before they are digested, which creates excessive fermentation. After a juice feast, some people continue to indulge all day long on dried fruits, bananas, avocados, nuts and seeds. This may result in weight gain. I have seen it happen. Their body just doesn't need all that food.
In my opinion, Juice Feasting is far superior and safer than water fasting. Your metabolism won't slow down as much as if you did a water fast, because water fasting is further down the step ladder. The poisons released on a cellular level during a fast are HIGHLY ACIDIC and create free radicals. The alkaline juices help neutralize these acidic poisons, preventing free radical damage.
People are able to take care of their daily responsibilities on a Juice Feast because they have less energy spent on digesting their foods and have masses of energy. Additionally, the toxins are what slows someone down during a fast and the juices help alkalinize the system, making those toxins less harsh on the body while providing all the nourishment needed by the body. Additionally, cleansing the colon on a periodic basis is highly recommended on a Juice Feast. If people are pulling the toxins out with enemas, they have even MORE energy; those toxins won't be slowing them down.
Your body will become a more biologically efficient machine if you do a Juice Feast. Your metabolism will become MORE EFFICIENT, which is a GREAT thing. Try to prepare yourself when you come out the other end. For more information on how to reset your metabolism, read the Juice Feasting article I wrote here.
I got such tremendous feedback from this blog post I wrote on an "Intermediate Wholefood diet". It seemed to be very helpful for a lot of people. I am going to include it here as another article.
 Yesterday we decided to take a night trip to Rotorua. This place is know as 'Nature's Spa'. It is located in an area where the earth's surface is closer to the earth's core than most places. There are Hot Springs everywhere! The entire town smells like sulfur and whereever you look there is steam coming off bodies of water. You can actually see the steam behind us in the picture to the right. We stayed in a small Motel that actually has Hot Spring Pools throughout it. Right across the street was a huge HOT Sulfuric Lake! We soaked a loooong time in the pools last night... EXCITING!
 My mom started Dr. Fred Bisci's Intermediate Diet about a year ago. Before that she was doing the Atkin's Diet as it works very well for taking off weight. The premise of the Atkin's diet is to consume VERY LITTLE carbohydrates and refined sugars while allowing you to eat as much animal protein as you like. When you do something like this, the weight SHEDS off. However, many people run into problems on the Atkin's Diet in the long-run. The reason for this is they eat masses of animal protein which can easily create an acidic condition in the body. When an acidic condition exists in the body, it leaches mineral salts (calcium) from the skeletal frame, which inevitably may cause Osteoporosis.
However, if you were doing the Atkin's diet like my mom was, it could be a great diet. She didn't overdo the animal protein and ate a salad every single night. The reason I say it can be a great diet is because you cut down or eliminate the two most damaging foods (refined sugar and processed starches). The funny thing is that high carb fruits, such as bananas, are something to be avoided in the Atkin's diet due to their high carbohydrate content. My mom has always cared about her appearance and would stay away from any carbs, bananas included. So here we have my mom eating a salad every night and berries with cottage cheese in the morning. She ate other things too but this was the base of her diet every morning and every night. You would think that she was on a great diet and would be stabilized out at a certain weight. Well...
then...
She went on Dr. Fred Bisci's Intermediate diet.
 This diet requires that you eliminate Refined Sugars and Processed Starches from your diet COMPLETELY WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER. She still felt like she had to have her coffee in the morning, but everything else she followed completely. That was a big jump for my mom. Every family get-together that we have, chocolate cake and many other desserts and foods are a main family tradition. I don't know how she did it but she has been on Fred's diet for over a year now and she just turns down everything offered to her at those gatherings. She brings flax crackers and raw chocolate truffles to these events to eat, which I send her. She goes NUTS for these Chocolate truffles. Her favorite, at this time, is the Goji Cherry Truffles, however, it is always changing. She was dumbfounded how the weight kept coming off of her. Keep in mind this is not on a 100% Raw Food Diet. This is an intermediate WHOLEFOOD cooked diet. On this diet you can eat MODERATE quantities of animal protein and dairy, brown rice, beans, 7 grain bread, steamed veggies, and much more. She even had a high carb banana and it DIDN'T MATTER! She lost well over 14 pounds to the lowest weight she has experienced in decades! She LOVES to show it off. The only problem is she had to get rid of a lot of her clothes. My mom really loves QVC and a few years after my brother left home, his bedroom became a SECOND walk-in closet. You can only imagine the charity offering she had. (oh! I am in trouble!)
 If you eliminate refined sugars and processed starches from your diet completely without any exceptions, you WILL go through a healing crisis. It may take 3 days, 3 months, or even a year. For my mom, it was probably about 6 - 8 months. The best time to show off the power of colon hydrotherapy is to do it when you get sick. I have seen time and time again where someone was told they had to go on antibiotics and instead they did a colonic and INSTANTANEOUSLY they felt better and didn't need the antibiotics. The results are miraculous! All disease is the same! It is just all this waste that builds up in the system and tries to leave the body. For example, when someone develops psoriasis, it is "disease" trying to leave through the skin; bronchitis, the throat; zits (Acne), your face. A colonic is the most effective way of pulling this waste out relieving the pressure in these areas allowing for immediate healing. The colon is the central waste station of the human organism. Empty it out and waste from other areas in the body will be able to dump into it.
 So... After about 8 months, my mom had a healing crisis and at this time my mom refused to cleanse her colon. She went to the hospital and they put her on antibiotics which took the cold away. Luckily, within a couple of weeks, her cold came back. She was very weak, as all her vitality was just trying to push this waste out of her. Before she went to the hospital a second time, she had a HUGE bowel release! For two days she poured out nonstop. (Now I am in REALLY BIG TROUBLE!!!!) When she came out the other end of this, she lost the desire for her coffee and stopped that too.
Dr. Fred Bisci told her that her life would be soooooo much easier if she just did a colonic. She wouldn't have to be going through as much pain. He also told her that he has recommended thousands to get colon hydrotherapy and never has anyone run into problems doing it. It is completely safe. I feel at some point she will do it. Fred recommended the product Colosan (which we will be carrying soon) in the meantime. It is not NEARLY as effective but it helps get rid of the "intestinal plaque".
I have to say I am soooo proud of my mom, more than ANYTHING!!!
Next post I may talk about Raising Children Raw!
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Shirin - My Mom's Co-worker
"Hi Joan,
I wanted to thank you again for giving me your son's book. I found very useful information which helps me continue being Raw. There were times that I almost gave up. He explains everything so well at cellular level which I had not seen in any other book. My 2 year old daughter started being raw since December and she is doing great. I can not thank you enough for this book. It was just what I needed to keep me going.
Thanks,
Shirin, OT"
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Here are our new products that I am so excited to share. Watch out for next month! There will be new Superfood products that I am introducing to the market that aren't yet available in the US. 
- RAW IN TEN MINUTES instructional 2 DISC DVD SET, by Bryan Au - I forgot to add this to the site last month as promised (Sorry)
- Red Maca
- Wild Jungle Peanuts
- Unpasteurized 100% Raw & Organic Almonds
- Raw & Organic Noni Fruit Powder from Hawaii
- Vanilla Bean Powder
- Herbed Peruvian Olives
- Botilla Olives
- Purple Corn Kernals
- Camu Powder
- Yacon Powder
- Dried Yacon Slices
- Organic Raw Pistachios
- Omega Food Processor
- Athena Water Filter/Alkalizer/Ionizer
- Delphi Kitchen Faucet Water Filter/Alkalizer/Ionizer
- E3 Live Variety Pack - Try all flavors of E3 Live in one order
- Authentic Macadamia Nuts, Vacuum Packed - Only available in 5-10lb right now
- Anastasia BOOK 8
Anastasia Book 8!
 Anastasia Book 8 just came out!!!
Anastasia says that the words written in Vladimir's book is constructed in such a sequence to where it will subliminally creates a positive loving change amongst anyone that reads it. I believe this is true because anyone I know that reads this book gets inspired to improve themselves and our "current planetary condition". I have read books 1 - 4. I only needed to read one to create the positive change and now I just can't stop.
What did I get out of reading Anastasia?
 She consistently talks about the power of LOVE. She has this ray that she uses to see people anywhere on the planet. She then uses this "ray of love" to heal people, calm serious situations, inspires acts of love and much more. IT IS SO SIMPLE! It is all about using the energy of love. From a health standpoint, the more love energy that comes into our beings, the healthier we are going to be. We even have the power to heal others with this LOVE. On the otherhand, when we are feeling "negative feelings" such as anger, resentment, envy, etc. the effect does the opposite of healing. I just sent the feeling of love to my mom, brother, and father right now. Although they may not be conscious of it, their lives have been altered for the positive. They did feel it, most likely unconsciously. Now I just sent LOVE to YOU. Did you feel it in you heart?
It’s just a fact of life that we go through "up's and down's" and we end up at each poll, experiencing both love and other negative energies. After reading Anastasia, this "sequence of words", or whatever it was, inspired me so much to make a goal of mine to exude love always. It is quite amazing how my life has changed. When ever I get awareness and I am not stuck in my mind, I make it a point to create love. Exuding LOVE is my meditation technique. How can I not make this a focus due to it's benefits? It is a goal for me. It made me realize, what is the point of having negative feelings if it has an anti-healing effect? These negative feelings still come inside me but it is different now. I now know that these negative energies are harmful and pointless.
 One time I got really upset and my ego didn't want to leave the situation. It hurt. However, with this new Anastasia Inspriation, it was quite different. The new me was kind of floating up above with the awareness that this is foolish, that it was detrimental to my health, well-being, and everyone else around. So in relatively a short period of time I swallowed my pride and went in the other direction. That point of surrendering and swallowing my pride was sooooo PAINFUL. It was like a popcorn kernal getting hotter and hotter and then !BOOOM! The result, of course, was LOVE! The !BOOOM! was the point to where all that pain built up and where the release of it all happened at the same time. The more I practice this, the quicker the Kernal !BOOOMS!, and the less pain I experience.
All other New Items can be found at the link below:
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Last month's "At Cost" Berries Specials were INSANE! Our suppliers didn't know what HIT them. This month we are having a little party with the Maca and Hemp Protein!
Maca 16oz $12.95
Red Maca $14.95
Hemp Protein 3 Pounds $15.95
To take advantage of this offer, click the link below, or type - PeruvSP - in the search field at the top right hand corner of www.TheRawFoodWorld.com.
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You can also redeem this 10% off coupon at www.TheRawFoodWorld.com by typing in - maca10 - in the coupon number section to get an additional 10% off your order. This coupon will be good through March 31st and can be redeemed at:
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During our travels, Angela and I meet the powerhouses of the Raw Food World in different areas. These people are the "Raw Foods HUB" of that specific area, bringing inspiration, a place for social gatherings, education, and spreading the Raw Word to the masses. Mark and Natasha seem to be solely responsible for bringing this light to Ottawa, Canada.
Mark and Natasha are the creators of their business "Simply Raw", which can be seen at www.simplyraw.ca. They seem to have THE largest Raw Food potlucks in the world, bringing well over 100 people to each event. On top of that, they have the most delightful Raw Foods "Pie Contest" and Festival each year. It was such a delight attending the last one. We'll be there again this year too!
Natasha Kyssa, certified Ann Wigmore Living Foods Lifestyle Coach, Ekaya Institute of Living Foods, & The Living Light Culinary Arts Institute, has been Raw Vegan for over sixteen years - long before personal websites and online support groups! She learned about the benefits of wholesome unrefined foods from her Austrian mother who ran The Pantry, a veggie Tea Room in Ottawa, Ontario. Even as a youngster her favorite foods were fresh fruit, salads and sauerkraut. A vegetarian of 20+ years, she has experimented extensively with nutrition, fasting, juicing, cleansing, mono diets and counseled many clients on the Arise & Shine Clean-Me-Out Colon Cleanse and other detoxification programs after studying with Dr. Richard Anderson in 1995. Natasha is a 4 time Graduate of the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute and attended the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in California. She is a certified Raw Lifestyle Coach, Living Foods Nutrition Specialist, Raw Chef and Live Food Instructor. Natasha also studied darkfield microscopy and is currently accepting new clients.
You can only imagine what type of impact Natasha had on Mark when they met!!!
Well... he made a quick commitment to a very high percentage raw diet.
Mark leads a very active lifestyle, with daily exercises ranging from rock climbing, ice hockey, hiking, biking, yoga, inline skating, snowshoeing, and skiing. Sharing in the raw vegan lifestyle with Natasha, Mark has been thrilled to see the positive results that a raw diet has had on his sport performance, natural body sculpting, and energy levels.
Thank you Mark and Natasha for Making a Difference!
~Many Blessings from The Raw Food World~
Thank you for continuing to let us serve you.
We wish you and those you love, the very best of everything!
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