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Greetings from Matt Monarch

In this Newsletter you will experience:

  • The Need For Very Little Food - Article
  • Coconut Oil Raises Cholesterol??? - Popular Blog Post
  • Raw Success & Raw Emotions - What people are saying!
  • New products - Goji Powder! & More...
  • More "At Cost" Specials & Coupon Code!
  • Shining the SpotLight - Dhrumil!
  • The Raw Spirit Fest! - Sedona, AZ
  • The Fourth Annual Vibrant Living Expo - Fort Bragg, CA
  • The Simply Raw Festival - Ottawa, Canada

Angela and I are now in Thailand!!! You have GOT to check out our Adventures in Thailand by clicking on the video to the right. Guess what my first word to the taxi driver at the airport was? DURIAN!!! The first night we stayed at a nice hostel in Bangkok. The next day we travelled about 3 hours by bus to Chanthaburi, which is the Durian Epicenter of the world. Last year they produced over 840 MILLION KILOs OF FRESH DURIAN! There is fresh durian on the street 30 feet away from our hotel... and then every 10 feet after that, there are more durian stands. We are staying at a REALLY NICE hotel right now for $22 a night. We are treated like movie stars here.

There are elephants walking in the middle of the streets in Bangkok. Ladies, you can go shopping here in Chanthaburi or Bangkok at really low cost. We got tens of thousands of Baht currency for very little US currency. For example, one whole fresh durian was 30 baht, which is equivalent to less than 1 US Dollar. To get a fresh durian like this anywhere else in the world would be about $30 minimum. We are here for about a month.

I am excited to be coming back to CA in June. I'll be speaking in Los Angeles on June 14th and you can view the event details HERE.

Oh... I almost forgot ;-)! Angela does it again in her New Musical Hit Song. I do have to say myself that this is her best one yet! ;-) You can watch it HERE!



The Need For Very Little Food - Article

In past articles I have mentioned that a person evolves to a 'New Plateau' when they go on a 100% Raw Food Diet. You will need less food to THRIVE, have higher amounts of energy, and you will become more sensitive to toxins and past food choices. To explain this "New Plateau" concept a bit further, let me provide you with the following example:

Like many people today, when I was on the 'Standard American Diet', I could eat two hamburgers in one meal without any problem. If I were to eat a third hamburger, I would be overeating and I would not feel well. I have been eating 100% Raw for nearly 8 years now, during which time the way I eat has changed dramatically. Whereas in the beginning I could eat 3 large avocadoes in one meal with no issues, these days my eating is very different. Now that I have reached this next NEW Plateau, eating half of an avocado satiates me in the same way that eating two hamburgers did in my SAD days. If I were to eat an entire large avocado these days, that would create an overeating feeling, just as if I overate with that third hamburger. In either case - cooked or raw - it would produce the same feeling and I would not feel well. My body has simply evolved to a "New Plateau", needing to eat less food.

When you TRULY eat only a 100% Raw Food Diet, it can take many years to 'stabilize out' and reach a comfortable 100% Raw Food Plateau. During this process, weight loss and high energy are inevitable. Although it takes many years to truly get used to this type of diet, it can also seem like a blink of an eye, in some ways. Before you know it, you will reach this 'Raw Food Plateau', and your body will require very little food to function optimally. We need a lot less food (calories) to THRIVE than most people realize.

Some common complaints I get from people who TRULY go 100% Raw is, "Why have I gained unwanted weight back & why can't I lose it?", "Why do I have hunger pains unless I eat excessive amounts of Raw Food?", and "Why do I lack energy?"

I promise you, as the many years go by, it becomes much easier to get used to that "Raw Food Empty Feeling" in your stomach. However, many people don't necessarily follow their bodies' higher interest and instead they follow the taste buds on their tongues, or the emotional demands of their minds. The body can truly survive and thrive on small amounts of WHOLE Raw fats, proteins, fruits and vegetables. If the typical Raw Food Eater of today would try to live off these WHOLE foods, in small amounts, right now, it may result in an emotional crisis. The small, simple meals will feel entirely plain to their tongue, leave an empty feeling in the stomach, and it would seem like eating is just a process to nourish the physical body.

Remember when you first went Raw, you had to go through some sort of 'renouncement' of foods? The taste of cooked food was completely different from the taste of your new raw food diet. A 'renouncement' of food can be said to take place when you go 100% Raw. Here is a great example Angela and I were contemplating the other day. We decided to go out of the norm and have a delectable treat. We ate a Raw Food product called 'Buckola', which is a Raw Organic Sprouted Buckwheat Cereal. The 'all organic' ingredients are: Sprouted buckwheat, sunflower seeds, raisins, shredded coconut, cinnamon, and vanilla. We blended up water, sesame seeds and dried apricots as the 'milk' for this 'cereal'. The taste of this cereal was sooo sweet to us and it was such a delicious treat! However, if my 'mainstream-eating' brother were to eat this cereal, his face would surely cringe in disgust and it would taste completely plain to him, with no sweet taste whatsoever. I also imagined what I would have thought, if I were to eat this kind of meal before I was eating a Raw Food Diet. I think I too would have thought it was tasteless and pointless. Switching Milk for Water??? Cookie Crisp or Cap'n Crunch for sprouted buckwheat groats??? However, now I LOVE IT!

Back to the key point of this article: If you TRULY adhere to a 100% Raw Food Diet for 5 - 10 years (or even longer), you will evolve into needing to eat very little food. There is no healthy way around that. A second 'renouncement' will need to take place, in order to get the full benefits of eating a 100% Raw Food Diet in the Long-Run. If you succeed at persisting with this, the ongoing, unfamiliar feeling of hunger will be transformed into a sense of enjoyment, which will be associated with bountiful energy and "automatic meditative awareness". The "hunger pains" that you currently experience are, in a sense, 'false'. It is simply the stomach shrinking and detoxification.

Your body will give you hints that it is ready to take it to the next level for that next 'renouncement'. Not to be confused with detoxification, these hints may include unwanted weight gain, lack of energy, runny nose, indigestion, etc. However, many people also experience the latter three symptoms when they first go raw too, because they overeat, detox, and the body just has a lot of healing work to do. Again, don't confuse the differences between detoxification and moving to a new plateau of 'purity'. It takes MANY YEARS to get to this point and the longer you are 100% Raw, the easier it is to consistently eat less food.

If you are at this 'second renouncement' point and you do not feel good with that empty feeling in your stomach, and you eat over it, then you will experience a lack of energy, indigestion, weight gain, and/or possibly a feeling of dis-satisfaction, as your body deals with food that it doesn't want or need at this new plateau. This is absolutely ok, yet I also would love to see people understanding WHY they are experiencing these symptoms.

If you make this next renouncement and are consistent for a L-O-O-O-O-N-G time with your new way of eating, those 'plain' raw foods will turn into delicious foods to you, just as any Raw Food meals can start to taste AMAZING when someone goes and stays 100% Raw, leaving behind cooked/processed foods completely and allowing their taste buds to adjust. I can't even THINK about putting a hamburger in my body anymore. I am repelled by it and I do not consider it 'food' to me anymore. If you succeed in being consistent with this next level of 'renouncement' for a long time, the same process will most likely happen to you with "gourmet raw foods". You will most likely have no desire for gourmet recipes including things such as spices, nama shoyu etc. If you do then eat those kinds of foods, you will notice symptoms such as puffiness, a runny nose etc.

If you are one of those people who find they gain unwanted weight on the 100% Raw Food Diet, your body may be at this new plateau, ready to take your intake to that next level, by consuming very little food. In my opinion, this next level of renouncement is easy to make but difficult to maintain consistently, for the rest of your life. Other options that I can think of for anyone finding themselves facing a new plateau with overweight issues, besides eating VERY LITTLE food, are high-intensity exercise or simply accepting your current position. Keep in mind that if you start to eat less food, lose weight, and become cleaner, it will then take even less food to cause weight gain afterwards, if you start to eat more again.

On the 100% Raw Food Diet, we have the potential to live well past the century mark, ESPECIALLY when living in an environment with exceptionally clean air quality. What a monumental task it would be for a man of this day and age to accomplish eating very little amounts of RAW FOOD consistently for their entire lifetime. (My book 'Raw Success' talks about how it is not advisable to eliminate the more concentrated foods such as nuts or seeds completely, because you will detox quicker and become even more sensitive, wherein the environmental toxins may have an adverse effect on your longevity. 'Raw Success' also talks about the serious questions and hazards around becoming very 'clean' at a cellular level and sensitive.)

Long-term Raw Food Eaters need very little food on the 100% Raw Food Diet. I feel it is of the utmost importance in the long-run to gain COMPLETE control of our food intake on the Raw Diet, for ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION and L-O-N-G-E-V-I-T-Y.

Coconut Oil Raises Cholesterol??? - Great Blog Post

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I am NOW a RawMan & Green-Girl JUNKY!!! WOW! I LOVE IT!!! You must watch this video!

The short animated film "The Adventures of Rawman and Green-Girl" which was produced by Ron Gilmore and shown at the 2008 Raw Lifestyle Film Festival can now be seen on You Tube. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lzWVk2eKmA. The film features the voices of Tonya Kay as Green-Girl and Steve Prussack of Raw Vegan Radio as the Chief. Ron Gilmore's website for this epic feature is here: http://www.rawmanandgreengirl.com/


Xell wrote:

I have a question for you: What do you think or Virgin Coconut Oil? I have been reading the Miracle of Coconut Oil, and while I have been using it for several years, I am now playing with his suggested therapeutic dose of 3.5 Tablespoons a day (am NOT following his recipes, however)...what do you think of all this? I have to admit I have seen some pretty interesting results (I swear I am getting rid of parasites) and wanted to know your thoughts. Thank you for everything!
Xell

 Ok, well...remember that I am more sensitive than 'the average Joe'... If I didn't vomit after eating 3.5 Tablespoons of coconut oil in one day, I would definitely wake up unhappy the next day with a HUGE headache and runny nose. Even smaller amounts of coconut oil don't feel optimal to me.

The affects of coconut oil depends on who you are. If I were to eat some animal protein, that would result in a disaster. However, someone on an intermediate healthy cooked food diet might eat it at any time and be fine.

The Number one benefit that MOST people derive from coconut oil is the fact that they are eliminating other HARMFUL fats from their diet and putting in coconut oil instead, which is practically harmless to them. Think of the millions of people who have eliminated nasty trans-fats and replaced them with coconut oil. THAT IS A HUGE DIETARY IMPROVEMENT. It's not the coconut oil that healed them, it is eliminating the trans-fatty acids, which are detrimental to the body that healed them. ANOTHER beautiful thing about the coconut oil is that you can cook with it and the properties stay stable to high temps, so that it doesn't become more damaging to the body. This is indeed a 'coconut miracle' to 90% of the human population.

I am 95% sure that RawMan & Green-Girl don't put coconut oil in THEIR Green Smoothies. There is an on-going debate on the internet whether coconut oil raises the blood cholesterol levels. If I were to take a blood test now, and then eat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil every single day and tested my blood again after a month, I have no doubt that my blood cholesterol would be through the roof. However, someone on the standard American diet who replaces trans-fats with coconut oil would likely have the EXTREME opposite effect, with their cholesterol shooting downwards. The effects on a 100% Raw Food eater would be even different from someone on an intermediate healthy cooked food diet. It may not even effect someone's cholesterol on a healthy intermediate diet at all.

Also, keep in mind, that coconut oil is really concentrated and if RawMan and Green-Girl are actively fighting the dark forces on an on-going basis, then I have a pretty strong feeling that they are staying away from large amounts of coconut oil. My diet consists of mainly whole foods and the most concentrated fats I eat are small amounts of avocado, nuts and seeds. I do eat coconut oil every once in a while when I go to a raw restaurant... and... I do pay for it the next day. Also, keep in mind; if you have a raw food eater who eats lots of concentrated fats on a daily basis, then the coconut oil won't affect them as much either. However, if they are TRULY 100% Raw, their body will rapidly become cleaner and at some point demand less.

I LOVE using coconut oil on my skin, in my hair, and for massage though. It's GREAT topically!

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On a side note, a friend of mine told me how they got over their acid reflux problem by using chia seeds. They would take about a tablespoon of unsoaked, dry chia seeds and just swallow it. They said that the chia absorbed all the acid in the stomach! No more Acid Reflux! After about 5-10 minutes, they would then drink a glass of water, for the chia seeds to absorb, once all the acid had been soaked up. This helps to prevent the chia from 'stealing' water/liquid from the body in other ways, to fully hydrate itself. My friend says this simple chia 'trick', which costs pennies per day has helped bring incredible relief from Acid Reflux - WOW :) You can order Chia Seeds by clicking HERE.

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Oliver Wrote:

Lately i was reading your article about "the missing Link in the rawfood diet" and your blog and it made me wonder about: If we detox all of our lives and we depend on periodic Colonics is there time to enjoy the superior health we are supposed to reach? It sounds like we would be on a nonstop detox trip. :) Just thoughts ..
All the best
Oliver

 EVERYONE is on a non-stop detoxification trip. It is an ongoing process in the human life cycle - we all go into detox every single night, for example, when we stop eating and rest. If they are doing it optimally, Raw Food Eaters have the added benefit of not running into arthritis, getting zits, headaches and so much more! The SAD eater is continually detoxing the same stuff they put in their body, day in and day out. Their bodies generally break down early in life because they don't give themselves a chance to eliminate all the backed-up waste, which they keep adding to every single day. When you go 100% Raw, you start to detox ALL the stuff you have been putting in for your entire life... and YES... it needs to be dealt with. There is no doubt, Oliver, that there are "up's and down's" to this ongoing detoxification process. As you reach higher levels of 'cleanliness', your body's efficiency increases. Your brain functions better, you become more beautiful and your body becomes more in-tune to the universal cosmic energy. On the other hand, it takes years to understand your body and your new diet and much confusion arises, but in my opinion, and I believe most likely RawMan & Green-Girl's opinions too, it is well worth it. ;)

My GREAT friend Paul Nison just put a series of videos up on You Tube of one of his lectures. His jokes just keep me laughing through the entire lecture and it is soooo inspiring. There is a set of six parts and they are 10 minutes each. The videos can be seen HERE.

LASTLY... Calling All Colon Hydrotherapists!!! I get hundreds of people asking me where they can get a colonic from a GOOD THERAPIST! I am creating a list. The goal is to have an AMAZING colon therapist in each state and region, in every country where colonics are available. Each colon therapist who wants to be put on this list will go through the Matt Monarch 'WRINGER' to make sure they are the BEST of the BEST! Email me at matt@rawspirit.org.

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Raw Success & Raw Emotions ~ What People are Saying!

Angela and I have received such tremendous feedback on our latest books, Raw Success and Raw Emotions. We get emails flooding in about how these books have inspired many and helped them transform their lives. We decided to create an Advanced Ebook Package that consists of these two books. We also created a Beginner's Ebook Package which consists of my first book Raw Spirit and Angela's book, How to go Raw for Weight Loss.

  • Wendy
    I want to thank you for your wonderful book "Raw Success". I have many on the subject - but yours I just couldn't put down. In fact I ordered the other one you wrote from Amazon and hope it will be here soon. After reading "Raw Success" I didn't hesitate to get a colonic and feel better than I have in years. I think I remember you saying you had met someone from Ohio in your book, but I can't seam to find that page right now. Anyway I don't know if you give lectures but I would hope to know if you were out this way and not miss out.
    Thanks again!
    Wendy

  • Susan
    You have just done a tremendous job synthesizing so much information, and I cannot tell you how grateful I am. Your book has brought together all the elements I need to think about and study and ACT on as an Active Transformer. You're an excellent writer (I'm an English teacher - it matters to me!) and very, very kindhearted with us. Thank you so much for your time and effort with this book. It should be published for the widest possible audience. I truly think it's the best book I've ever read on recovering from food (and other) addictions. And I'm a voracious reader! It moves me that a woman so much younger than me has healed herself so remarkably; your journey inspires me to make the most of the rest of mine. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
    Susan

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    Shining the Spotlight - Dhrumil!

    I've been excited all month long to "Shine the Spotlight" on Dhrumil! I have the utmost respect for this man. His egoless being touches the hearts of many with masses of Inspiration, Love, and Opportunity. Just by looking at his pictures you can sense how "hip" and Passionate he is. He is The "Godfather" of the Raw Foods Movement!

    It all started with his blog, www.WeLikeItRaw.com. For many years now, his unbiased posts have kept people informed of EVERYTHING going on in the Raw Foods movement. Years later he took a monumental step in creating THEEEEE online Raw Food Community, www.giveittomeraw.com. It is just like Myspace and Facebook, only it's for Raw Food Eaters.

    This man and his team are unstoppable. Every week I hear of new additions to this online community. There is a Raw Worldwide Restaurant Map & Calendar to which ANYONE can post Raw Food Events in their area, Quickies, which is a quick way to get masses of information compiled in a condensed format, and they have aggregated many Raw Food Blogs together on to one site, mine included, at theyliketo.giveittomeraw.com. Many people complain that it is hard to connect with other Raw Food Eaters. NOT ANY MORE! If you are looking for friends or events to possibly meet that Romantic someone, THIS IS THE PLACE TO DO IT --> www.giveittomeraw.com.


    Dhrumil reminds me of one of my best friends from high school. Although, I don't know him that well personally, I am absolutely positive we would connect seamlessly, just as he does with everyone. Dhrumil describes himself as a "25 year old Spiritual Player" living in Delaware, and LADIES, I do believe this stud man is SINGLE ;-).


    Thank you Dhrumil for Making a HUGELY impacting Difference!


    The Raw Spirit Festival

    Last year there were over 2000 Health-Conscious-Loving individuals at this festival. The Raw Spirit Fest is on Track to double the attendance this year. I highly recommend attending this festival to connect with others, seek out possible business opportunites and to learn a WEALTH of information. Angela and I will both be attending the event and speaking on the Main Stage. This is the last month to get your tickets at the low price of $300. To sign up now Click Here

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    The Fourth Annual Vibrant Living Expo

    Angela and I will also be speaking at Cherie Soria's, Fourth Annual Vibrant Living Expo.



    Cherie has the Ultimate Raw Food Chef Training Series where you can get a Raw Culinary Arts Professional Chef Certification. Upon my travels, I have met many who have gone through Cherie's course. Their satisfaction makes me want to recommend Cherie's center as THE Place to get a certification.

    Details of the Fourth Annual Vibrant Living Expo:
     August 22-24, 2008
    Cost: $195 for all three days, $75 per day
    Register by July 1st and pay just $165

     To Register for the expo or learn more about Chef Certification, Click Here

    By clicking that link above you will also see that there will be lots of great pre-and post-Expo classes.

    The Simply Raw Festival

    Last but not Least, Angela and I will be speaking at Simply Raw Festival in Canada. You can learn more about it by clicking on the picture below:

    ~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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