IIs a Costco membership worth it on a whole foods diet?
GET YOUR KIDS INTO THE KITCHEN!
Uploaded by GreenSmoothieGirl on Jun 4, 2009 to YouTube
See how purchasing a Costco membership can pay for itself for those feeding their family a whole foods diet. Robyn from GreenSmoothieGirl.com will show you what she buys at Costco each week and how she gets her moneys worth from her yearly membership fee by purchasing quality fruits and vegetables and other whole foods items at Costco.
My Raw Food Journey – 6 month update: Parts 1 and 2
Source: Uploaded by GreenMomZoe on Jul 5, 2010 to YouTube
Comments (GreenMomZoe)
Hi, I have a question. I have never even had kids yet, but my belly looks like I am pregnant!! The rest of my body is skinny, I have always been like this and i can’t seem to lose my belly fat. My mom and grandma also have big bellys, but small arms, legs and so I know it’s hereditary. I am a semi-vegetarian. I still eat fish, eggs and chicken, no other animals. I do eat a lot of sugar, but my stomach has always been big. What can I do?? 
fantard100 1 week ago
@fantard100 To target the belly, the best approach is crunches to strengthen the abdominal muscles.
GreenMomZoe 2 days ago
How do you look now, 2011? you look great anyway!
GiselleBellyDancer 2 weeks ago
@GiselleBellyDancer I look pretty much the same. My diet is a bit less raw – 60% to 75% – but it’s working fine.
GreenMomZoe 1 week ago
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@LordShandor I will have to disagree. Losing 30 lbs. in 6 months is not exactly “invisible” change in one’s body. And how do you know that I eat “too many” calories and don’t exercise “enough”? I have not gained any weight since that video was made (actually lost 5 lb. more) and I’m constantly moving and on the go with my business RAWbundant. I barely get free time to sit down and rest. So you are incorrect in your assumptions.
GreenMomZoe 6 months ago
How tall are you? You look great and don’t lose too many curves. You have a nice hourglass shape like me! I’m 5’4 and my body looks best at 135-140. If I lose more I start to look hollow in the face.
katjastar1 1 month ago
Love your accent btw… 
rickmack22 2 days ago
@BadMarriageMORECawbs I’m not sure if you are referring to me as “delusional” and wanting to be “anorexic” because those were NEVER my goals! I’ve been a professional volleyball player for many years and carried weight at about 165 – 175 lbs at 5’11″. I was NEVER a skeleton-looking woman because my body isn’t built to be skinny. But being over 200 lbs. made me feel fat…it just wasn’t me. There is a big difference between wanting to look skinny and wanting to look fit.
GreenMomZoe 2 days ago
i agree, shes delusional and sounds like her goal is to look like an anorexic skeleton . sick , i know alot of women who have been brainwashed by the media to think someone weighing 120 pounds is Fat ! im convinced they all want to look like twigs of skin and bone, this fat phobia with women is starting to get Psychotic and turn into a Mental disorder
BadMarriageMORECawbs 3 days ago
Part 2
How to Start The Raw Foods Diet
This is a short and simple video that offers suggestions on how you can start to transition your diet from cooked foods to raw foods. Discover how you can change your life and level of health by consuming a 100% RAW FOOD DIET.
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Natural Cures For Diabetes –Treat it the Natural Way
By Marilyn Reid
Frequent urination, unquenchable thirst, weakness, fatigue, tingling, numbness of extremities, and sudden weight loss. These are the common symptoms that a person suffering from diabetes experiences. Are you experiencing the same thing? If you are, then it’s high time you pay your doctor a visit and have your blood sugar checked.
What is diabetes? Diabetes is a disorder on which the body is not able to regulate the amount of sugar, particularly glucose, in the blood. Glucose plays a vital function in the body as it provides you with the energy to perform daily activities like brisk walking, working, jogging, and many others. It is regulated by the insulin, the hormone produced by the pancreas, and allows it to move from the blood to the muscle, liver, and fat cells to be used for fuel. Now, if a person’s body does not produce enough insulin, also known as type 1 diabetes, or produce enough but does not use it properly, referred to as type 2 diabetes, then he or she should find diabetes treatment at once.
What are some natural cures for diabetes? When you are diagnosed with diabetes, perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind is to know what medications to take in order to treat it. Although it’s true that there are prescribed medicines for this disorder, you can always treat it the natural way just by knowing what the natural cures are. Natural cures for diabetes could range from regular exercise, good eating habits, and including raw foods in your diet.
Make sure that you get enough physical exercise to burn off the extra energy producing glucose. It can also help prevent complications that may arise from diabetes like poor circulation in the feet and legs and nervous disorders. Good eating habits, on the other hand, means managing what you eat, how much you eat, and when during the course of the day you sit down to eat. People suffering from diabetes should commit to keeping their diet varied and include a large amount of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains and they should see to it that they do not eat too much or too little during every meal.
A raw food diet can also do a lot to treat diabetes the natural way. People who have tried a diet of raw and organic foods revealed that it had helped reverse diabetes without the need for pharmaceutical medication. Although it can be difficult to change your diet, especially from cooked meals to raw, the little sacrifice can be worth it in the end as it helps you achieve a healthier you.
Diabetes may be a serious disorder but it can be easily managed and treated if done the right way. Regular exercise, good eating habits, and eating raw foods can certainly do a lot. The first two may be easy for you to follow, but the third could be not. Why not learn more about rawfood nutrition and sunfoods from David Wolfe for you to be enlighten further as to what it can do to treat diabetes?
For the past 10 years Marilyn Reid has been active as an advocate for Alternative Health Therapies, with an emphasis on healthy living and raw food diets. Marilyn has been fascinated with the work of the Healthy Lifestyle Nutritionist and Guru, David Wolfe and has a blog which keeps up with the latest in the world of Healthy Lifestyles. See more facts about Diabetes.
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Superfoods, Raw Foods and Fighting Disease With Raw Food Author and Chef Paul Nison
By Kevin Gianni
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Health Inner Circle, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeHealth.com. In this excerpt, Paul Nison shares on raw foods and super foods fighting disease.
Paul Nison is a raw food chef and educator. He is also the author of seven books including “The Raw Life.” Kevin: I wanted to talk a little bit more about the Crohn’s Disease. What does someone do when the doctor says to them, “You can’t have fruit.” Or, this happened to me before, someone comes to me – I know what to say – and they say, “I have Crohn’s Disease so I can’t eat fruit or vegetables.” What do you do? Paul: It’s quite simple. With all disease we’re stressing something out, we’re overdoing something in our body. So we just have to figure out ways to reduce the stress.Only in severe cases do you completely need to stop everything. Crohn’s and colitis are severe cases of intestinal disorders. So for a temporary time we might have to stop doing certain things that are contributing tremendously to the issue.
Overeating is more of the problem than the actual thing that you’re eating many times. That’s the first thing we have to cut down. What I tell people, I don’t even tell people to eat raw, whole foods when they have an intestinal disorder because any time a disease ends in “itis” it means there’s inflammation somewhere in the body – colitis, proctitis, all these other illnesses. Inflammation is a later stage of disease but disease doesn’t start with these later stages. It means you’ve missed these beginning stages.
Two beginning signs of disease are laziness and constipation, which most people suffer from and all these things start from overeating, usually, or not getting enough rest. So those are the first things I would tell people – you have to look at how much you’re eating and how much you’re sleeping. If people neglect sleep too much, good quality sleep, that’s a big part of healing. But when it comes to someone saying they can’t eat fruit I tell people is if you sprain your ankle and you try to jump rope you’re going to make the problem worse.
You have to rest your body. You have to rest your body from food, your intestinal tract. I would put them on blended foods and give them probiotics to help their colon and intestine heal. Then after the bleeding stops and the inflammation goes down that’s when you would start introducing — first I would put them on juices, then I would introduce blended foods and then when they were ready for it I would introduce whole foods. Some people, depending how deep their wound is, it will take weeks and some people it’s months. Now most people don’t have the patience or support around them to go through that process. That’s why I would recommend a place like Hippocrates Health Institute or one of these other places because they’re filled with great support and information.
It’s really not that difficult to get better from colitis, Crohn’s Disease and all these other things, physically. Mentally and emotionally it is a big challenge. Then when you have something like cancer it’s a whole other story. In those cases you really need to get to one of these institutes. It’s not something you want to do on your own at home.
Kevin: What do you think of superfoods? What do you think about the buzz? Paul: I think the most important place to get our nutrients from is from whole sources of raw, ripe, fresh, organic foods, vegetables, nuts and seeds eaten in the right amount at the right time. That should take precedence over anything else out there. Those are the real superfoods. There are certain times and cases where people might need to take supplements. I think that’s where superfoods are, as supplements.
I don’t believe in synthetic supplements but I believe in whole foods in a supplement form when needed and used appropriately. They should never take the place of the whole food, number one. We just had the Raw Food Summit with the raw food leaders from around the world with 500 years of experience. They all agreed that there’s a place for these certain foods but they’re not to take precedence over the whole foods.
The problem with the superfoods is some of them are truly healing to the body. These green powders are excellent. E3Live, even though it’s a whole food it’s classified as a supplement or a superfood. These are wonderful but the problem today is there’s a lot of things mixed in there that are junk food that people are calling superfoods and they’re really not. This is the dangerous thing in the raw food movement. I’d rather everyone completely avoid every single superfood out there if they don’t know what’s truly good and truly bad.That’s the big problem today. There are a lot of people out there today promoting things as superfoods and they’re actually not even not-healthy, they’re actually harmful. So we really have to be careful and show discern and realize who is saying what, what claims are being made and why.
Some of the claims out there are just ridiculous. Unfortunately it the world today people follow crowds and they go with the most charismatic person out there. That’s the person that’s going to say things to get people to follow them. It’s a big problem. So superfoods are excellent if they’re true superfoods but if they’re these fake superfoods they’re not great. Let me tell you, you could stick a “raw” sticker on a piece of candy and call it healthy. That doesn’t make it healthy. There’s a lot of junk out there that people are sticking stickers on and saying it’s a healthy superfood. It certainly isn’t.
As for the super berries and all these other things, I think the best berries we can get for our bodies are locally grown produce that are fresh. Berries that have to be flown from halfway around the world and dried, that just became popular within the last ten years or so, they’re not needed for health. I know somebody that’s 107 years old. He never had one of these berries from halfway around the world. For example, goji berries. They taste great and they do have a lot of healing properties but I’ll tell you what, a fresh blueberry or mulberry, right off the tree, is healthier than any berry that’s dried and flown around the world. If anyone out there is going to do things like goji berries, soak them overnight and re-hydrate them. Most people don’t like it like that because it takes a lot of the sugar out of it. It doesn’t actually take the sugar out it just re-hydrates it to where it should be. But it’s going to be better off for you.
There are other superfoods out there. It would be a waste of my breath even talking about some of these things because it’s a joke what people are saying with these things. We really have to wake up and show discern with these things. I plead with everyone out there, look at what’s happening and who’s saying what and what claims are being made. Not only at the Raw Food Summit that we have our leaders at with over 500 years combined, but we have people with scientific information that backs up what we’re saying. We didn’t just have, “I’m going to wake up one day and want to make a lot of money so I’m going to slap this on some dried fruit or powder and call it an amazing superfood.”
So we really have to show discern and be careful. Kevin: One of the superfoods that I had personal experience with is cacao. I know that you’re not very favorable for it. Can you just tell us what your experience with it is? Paul: First of all, I call it crack-cao because it’s one of the most addicting things out there. Fred Bisci and everyone else confirms this but what happened to me was I used to be a big fan of it because I loved the way it tasted. I started noticing I didn’t feel that great when I took it. But even more concerning was I contacted Jeremy Saffron who is a good friend of mine and he told me that he too thought it was once good and he did more research and found out it really wasn’t. It’s high in caffeine, theobromine and has some other issues with it. The bad weighs out the good.
People started coming to my lectures literally shaking. I do a lot of lectures. They were often shaking and saying, “I can’t get off this. Help me. It’s really bad.” It’s basically a drug. I’m not one to say nobody can ever take it and you can’t use it, but I believe it should be used in the same way a person would use like vanilla extract. You use it as a flavoring in very small amount and that’s fine. But when you’re told you need it to be healthy and you have to take pounds and pounds of it every day, that’s a whole other story. That’s where the problem lies. So we really have to be careful. Nobody is going to buy a month’s worth of vanilla extract, tons and tons of it, so they can pour it down their throat the way they do this crack-cao.
It’s just really a marketing scheme here. It’s really dangerous. It is a drug and a lot of people out there feel great taking it because they don’t know the difference between stimulation and true energy. We really have to be careful out there. Yes, it tastes great but there are other things that taste great as well that don’t have the same problems. We need to realize what those are. Give it up. Realize, “I don’t need this. Why am I taking this? Is it as good as it claims to be?”
I got a book from the publisher that publishes Arnold Ehret’s books. If nobody out there has read Arnold Ehret’s books you have to read “Mucusless Diet Healing,” which is a classic. Anyway, the publisher had another book “Live Food Recipe Book.” It was probably one of the first ones that were out. They actually spoke about it and they said it was a bad food. It’s becoming more common sense and more knowledge and people need to wake up. I know half of you probably hung up the phone because you didn’t want hear it was bad, but I’m not here to become your friend. I’m here to tell you the truth. If you can deal with it great. If you can’t, you’ll come to me later when you’re sick. So that’s that.
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Jameth Sheridan Discusses Superfoods Cacao and Raw Chocolate
Jameth Sheridan Interviewed by Kevin Gianni
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View all articles by Kevin Gianni This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Rawkathon, which can be found at http://www.Rawkathon.com. In this excerpt, Jameth Sheridan shares on superfoods including cacao and raw chocolate.
Rawkathon with Jameth Sheridan. Jameth Sheridan is the co-author of Uncooking with Jameth and Kim and the co-founder of the superfoods company HealthForce Nutritionals.
Kevin: Let’s move into, there’s a bunch of superfoods and a bunch of stuff I want to talk about. When we were in the car on the way over here, we started talking about chocolate.
Jameth: Yes.
Kevin: And cacao. And so, I want to kind of, I just want to get your scope on it. What’s the deal, what’s your experience with it?
Jameth: Sure.
Kevin: Maybe that can instruct some people.
Jameth: Sure. As far as for flavoring of things, chocolate has replaced carob over the years on the raw foods community. The whole idea is that raw, cacao is what raw chocolate is really called, and the whole idea is because it’s raw, it’s healthy. Just like I talked about earlier, there are two categories of food, raw and cooked. So chocolate, that has negative effects on people, that actually kills a lot of animals, all of a sudden because it’s raw, now it’s good for you. I wouldn’t call it a half truth, it’s maybe like a quarter truth or a fifth truth..
If you have a regular chocolate bar, it’s got pasteurized milk, it’s got hydrogenated oil, it’s got white sugar, it’s got artificial flavorings. None of it is organic. It’s got pesticide residues. It’s absolute crap. I would consider that poisonous for the body. In addition, it’s got caffeine and theobromine from the chocolate. And the chocolate’s probably been heated up to a temperature that’s not raw for sure.
You then can move into, let’s say, a whole food vegan chocolate bar where you have organic cocoa butter, organic cacao, sweetened with some sort of organic, more whole food natural sugar and no flavorings whatsoever. That is much healthier than a regular chocolate bar.
When you move into a raw chocolate-type product, you’ve got cacao and cacao butter, almost always of which are organic. The sweetener, instead of let’s say a refined sugar or a less refined sugar, in the vegan chocolate bar, is now something like agave nectar, or yacon, or lucuma, which are whole food sweeteners. Vastly healthier. And, if there’s vanilla in it, it’s actually vanilla bean. If there’s coconut in there, it’s not coconut flavoring or coconut flakes, it’s actual coconut. So, the raw chocolate bar is much more whole foods. It’s much more blood sugar balanced. Everything in there is, for the most part, a healthy ingredient.
But, you still have a cacao in there. And, cacao still has, it’s either caffeine or theobromine or both in there, they’re almost exactly the same chemicals. And, caffeine is not good for you. Whether it’s in the form of yerba matte or cacao. Caffeine artificially increases your heart rate. It can give you heart palpitations, it artificially increases your respiration. If you take enough of it, you actually can die. You can induce death if you take enough of it because your heart won’t be able to beat that fast. And, I’ve seen it mess a lot of people’s health up. If you take cacao before bed, you cannot sleep, period, because it’s going to keep you awake. It’s similar, we also talked about it in the car, people take No-Doze, they take caffeine to keep themselves up, like a whole food version of that. I consider cacao a whole food medicinal, recreational drug. And I don’t think any evidence suggests anything otherwise than that, it’s just it has this cache it has this thing that because it’s raw we can have it in any quantity and just pound it in and I’ve seen people really mess up their health and their lives by following that advice and I think it’s actually reckless.
Kevin: And you had mentioned in terms of antioxidants, I mean it’s good compared to some things.
Jameth: It’s up there, it’s one of the higher whole food type antioxidants. But when you compare it to lots of herbs like sage or oregano or rosemary or even if you start to get into herbal extracts or some fruit and vegetable extracts like resveratrol from grapes has about 40 times more antioxidants than cacao in it. Cacao is an OK antioxidant but if you are looking to take cacao to increase you antioxidant levels it’s a bad way to do it because cacao increases your metabolism, in an artificial way, it makes your heart beat faster and creates, actually, adrenaline in your body. It actually uses up more antioxidants than it provides you.
I use cacao what I call ceremonially. If I’m going to work out and I’m tired anyway, and I figure you know, I’m not going to work today at all, I will take a little bit of cacao or other things sometimes or green tea or other things with caffeine to just kind of kick myself in the ass and actually go out and do an hour or two workout. But just a little bit. If it’s already late at night and my wife and I want to stay up and watch a movie we’ll have a little bit of cacao. But we use it very, very carefully because its unbalanced power can easily be upset.
Kevin: Yeah.
Interesting. Let’s talk about another staple in the raw food diet which is nama shoyu, even tamari, for those people who find raw tamari, let’s talk about that.
Jameth: Sure. If I can start with that by talking about salt in general.
Kevin: Yeah, good.
Jameth: There’s the idea that some people think you should be on a completely low sodium diet because so much research has shown that low sodium diets lower blood pressure, it lowers your risk for kidney disease, for heart disease and so forth. Now that research is based on regular white table salt which is heated anywhere from 300 to 1200 degrees. It has chemicals added to it, it has inorganic iodine added to it, and inorganic iodine is toxic and can kill you if you have enough of it. Regular table salt is absolutely abysmal for your health and that should never be. Because that is so bad some people have thrown the baby out with the bath-water and say all salt is bad.
When you have no salt in your diet, or for example let’s talk about when you water fast, you have large amounts of water, no salt in the water and you would thing you would be extremely hydrated but when you water fast you’re actually slightly dehydrated. Because when you have too much salt from any source you hold too much water in your body, there’s too much water held in solution in your body you become puffy and retain fluids. If you have too little salt, salt is what allows you to hold on to fluids, you can’t hold on to enough fluids and no matter how much water you drink, in fact the more water you drink when you don’t have enough salt, the more dehydrated you become and the more work your kidneys have to do to maintain the salt you have in your system. So salt balance is essential.
Now you would think that on a natural diet you should be able to get enough salt from salty vegetables like celery or tomatoes and in some cases I think that’s accurate. But for anyone sweating or doing anything athletic or people who genetically have low blood pressure or most people in my experience need to have additional sources of organic sodium. If you look to animals in nature whenever there is a salt-lick around the animals flock to it and start consuming that salt- lick. Even animals in nature, you even find predator and prey near each other at salt-licks licking the salt because the prey is so drawn to that salt that they’ll risk getting eaten by a predator just so they can have that salt. There’s something very valuable about it.
The best form of salt in my opinion by far in any community is miso, because miso used to be considered cooked which was completely wrong because miso starts out cooked but it’s aged for two years. Usually it’s in wooden casks like they used to do in the old days and its treated with probiotics and enzymes and by the time miso comes out every square molecule of that miso has undergone enzymatic and probiotic action and miso actually has a huge life force field around it. It’s anti-cancer, it’s anti-radiation, it’s a tremendous antioxidant, it’s a tremendous healing food and only a small part of it is salt. To me it’s the number one, I actually consider miso a superfood. A hardcore superfood up there with any other superfood and it compares statistically and with research. It’s a live, living salt.
The next salt, the next things you would go to I think would be a shoyu type or tamari soy sauce. Years ago there was a mistake in the raw food community that someone thought or was led to believe that nama shoyu was raw soy sauce and tamari was not. People said tamari is poisonous crap, it’s cooked, and nama shoyu is the way to go. And let me tell you the truth on that, I’ve done a lot of research on this. Tamari is the world’s original soy sauce, made in Japan, back to recorded records. Miso was made, and the liquid that floated to the top of the miso was tamari, that was what was tamari. It was aged. It was fermented in a good way with bacteria and enzymes and no wheat was ever added to this there was no such thing as wheat in Asia. And today tamari is made on its own and fermented on its own.
Nama shoyu is very recent, thousands and thousands of years there was tamari and the ingredients are soy beans, water and salt, enzymes and probiotics that treat this. Nama shoyu is made differently whereas today they add westernized wheat to nama shoyu. The wheat actually when it ferments forms a large amount of alcohol. So it has a less full bodied flavor than tamari and it has a larger alcohol content which isn’t necessarily a problem but there’s less flavor to it and since it has wheat in it people with wheat allergies and people with gluten intolerance which is a big percentage of the population cannot consume it. And tamari, unless someone actually went out of the way to pasteurize, it is not cooked. Tamari is raw, so is nama shoyu. They’re equally as raw, but tamari is made the traditional healthy way, has a stronger better flavor than
nama shoyu and is completely gluten free.
Nama shoyu has destroyed, I mean absolutely reeked havoc, destroyed raw food cuisine for anyone who is wheat sensitive or anyone who has celiac disease which means they can’t have any gluten whatsoever. It’s just eliminated that for them and it’s less healthy for them than tamari. There’s no reason you need to be having wheat in your tamari, in your soy sauce. So to me, tamari, excuse me nama shoyu’s time has come due to an error, someone thinking it was raw and tamari was not and it’s now time for it to go. It has no place in the raw food community, I don’t think whatsoever, because we have superior alternatives and that would be gluten-free tamari.
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