In the past two weeks I’ve been hearing the words “thank you” quite a lot and I wanted to do something very special for you, but first…I personally wanted to thank *YOU*!
Honestly, if it wasn’t for great people like yourself, I would not be where I’m at today. I would not be able to share the message of Dr. Ann and her teachings about the raw food lifestyle, nor would I have ever been able to help people change their lives and get healthy. It truly is a blessing and I owe it all to people like yourself.
I know you would do the same, if you were in my shoes.
So I decided to do something very special as a way of saying “thank you.”I’ve decided to give away 2 complete courses of my new (Ver 2.0) Dr. Ann Wigmore Home Study Program.
The Two Grand Prize Winners Will Get:
- A FREE Complete Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Food Home Study Course Ver. 2.0
- A one hour personal consultation with me, Jim Carey!
Ok, so here are the rules…So here are the rules:
- You must leave a BLOG COMMENT to be eligible to win the contest. (see video here on how to leave a blog comment) Please DO NOT send me an email. Last time I checked my inbox has over 1,373 emails not opened.
- In your blog comment please tell me:
- Why you feel that you should win the course … AND …
- Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health
CONTEST TIPS:Feel free to create a video using Youtube.com Videos are always better! If you use a video, please post a link to your video in your blog comment. You can also post a video comment using “Viddler”.That’s it! I look forward to your comments and responses!
A very thankful,
Jim :)
P.S. I have another special announcement coming later this week that I think you’ll enjoy. (Just another way to give back to you.)
P.P.S. You may or may not know it, but this entire community has grown because of simply, “people telling people.” Again, it would have never be where it is today if it wasn’t for people like you.So I encourage you to pass along this email to your friends, family members, and whomever you think can benefit from this message or the messages of chidiet.com :)
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April 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I look forward to hearing the responses and am excited to help everyone on their journey to better health with the raw food diet.
- Jim
April 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
A few years ago my husband was blind sided by a psychiatric illness that has turned our lives upside down. Due to years of hard work I have my loving husband back but he is still on an entire cocktail of hard core drugs. His weight has ballooned and the side effects of the drugs are destroying his liver. He has drugs to overcome the side effects of the other drugs. His poor body is a battle field. It would be such a gift if we could keep his liver and other organs clean and functioning and perhaps get his system evened out enough that he could get down to a weight he would feel good about. We sure could use some help figuring out the best way to acheive this!
April 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
As a vegan I have thought myself to be very ‘healthy’… but over the last year or so, I’ve started to feel the tell-tale signs of aging… I couldn’t believe this was happening. After all, I had one of the best lifestyles on the planet. However, after doing more research, I’ve come to realize that I need to take the next step in my journey towards optimum health… the raw foods lifestyle. I would love the opportunity to grow and learn through your program so that I could be better equipped to help lead and support others in their quest for supreme health.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
i should win this because i am ill. i have vertigo, digestive problems, and unstable blood sugar.
i have to eat every 2 hours & i need help.
i can’t work & have no money.
thanks for considering me.
sincerely, bobbie
April 28th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
hello Jim,
more than ever, because my spouse is out of work and i’m struggling through breast cancer treatments, i’m trying to find free and affordable ways to improve my health and energy level. i have been receiving your emails, reading your blog, and reading books by Ann and other raw & live food folks–i’m very inspired but i’m moving very slowly because of my low energy. i think i would find great support in the Home Study course and would do back flips (slow, gentle ones) if i won it!
thanks for the opportunity
April 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
In the past, I lived a life that was very destructive to me, I drank too much, smoked and rarely ate any type of vegetable. I have been working very hard to make up for my past excesses, but need help and information to help my body repair itself. I have been reading several books on raw and living foods and feel this course would be a great way for me to help myself and others like me who did not take the best care of ourselves when we were younger. I would like to thank you for making this opportunity available, it will be very inspirational to read others stories.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I have been interested in the raw food diet for some time now. I feel it is the very best way to eat and enjoy a healthier life. My sister has lung cancer now and I have been talking to her about raw foods and how much they will help her body to get stronger. She is very interested and is being treated by a natural doctor now. I would like to help her even more as well as my other friends and family. With the way diseases are rapidly increasing in our society I feel I would be able to help them even more if I could learn more myself this is why I would like to win this Home Study course.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I am a spa owner and talk to all of my clients about health and nutrition and the importance of what we eat and how it effects the way we look and feel. I have been working my way to raw for many years and as of last year finally made the transition to raw. I have worked with a group of ladies and have had success in helping them to lose weight and change their habits. The next plan for me is to get the Home Study course so I may continue to share this wonderful way of living.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Winning the home study course would give me the education I need to implement this diet completely and correctly for my three children. All 3 of my boys are on the autism spectrum. I have begun incorporating raw principles as I learn them. As a family we are about 75-80% raw. Feeding children is daunting anyway, but feeding boys who are allergic to all gluten, soy, dairy, eggs, peanuts, cashews, petroleum, and food colorings and suffer with extreme eczema and asthma is overwhelming.
The reading and research I’ve done so far gives me every reason to believe that the health of our entire family would be dramatically impacted. The boys would be getting great nutrition, I believe their gut issues would be resolved and their overall health would improve. However, I sincerely think improving their diet in this way could reverse the autism issues with which they suffer. As their mother, eating a raw diet would give me the peak health I need to parent them well. My own health issues of overweight,diabetes, stress, insomnia and high cholesterol would be resolved as well, giving me the energy and stamina necessary to keep up with three extremely active and high-needs boys ages 8, 5 and 3.
Thank you for this opportunity.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I studied with Ann Wigmore over 30 years ago and now teach raw food and health classes from our home and Wellness Center on 40 acres. I teach many of Ann Wigmores teachings including how to grow sprouts, wheat grass, rejuvelac, etc. I have never seen the study course but I look for such materials to use for teaching and inspiring others. We did use one short video that showed Ann Wigmore in our advanced class and I would so love to receive more to help the many people we touch. We have been pioneers for health in our area and are now forming a larger group with surrounding areas. Ann Wigmores teachings are important for everyone to be exposed to and many still do not know of her of the originator of much of the health movement today.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I’ve been eating 100% raw for the past month, using no equipment, just wash and cut the fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds. no sprouting, juicing, blending, nothing. I thought I was pretty healthy, having eaten vegan for several years, but the detox i’ve been experiencing going to raw has been incredible. I need to learn the components to this lifestyle so that I can not only live it, thereby being an example, but teach it to others as a tranforming tool. Thank you for this opportunity.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Hi Jim,
My writing for my mom. She has been an inspiration in my life and I really would like the “best” for her. She is a recovering alcoholic for over 14 years now and has had 2 hip replacements and several surgeries due to car accidents. She is not on any medication and takes herbs for pain and for whatever ails her. She has been trying to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, but I know that your program would help guide her to a better life in her golden years! She is a Godly loving woman that loves life and people! And I know with the raw foods diet, she will continue to witness about what the Lord has done in her life to others! Thanks for your kind giving spirit. You will be blessed! Sandy :)
April 28th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I also want to add that Ann Wigmores program is the next level for me and most of my health students. I would like to specialize more in her teachings and would really like this course to help me and many like me, go to the next level.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I deserve this rawfood study course just because I do. I’ve bought a few books over the years. Now that I want to do rawfoods I am lacking in funds to really study it. On top of all that, my mother was recently diagnosed with stage IV appendix cancer very very rare and she’s doing some green juicing in addition to her chemo. I know the doctors don’t want to say but I think they’re giving her the chemo for palliative reasons. Anyway, I want to learn the best diet that will keep my sister and I cancer free and help enhance my mother’s quality of life. I am also a student nurse and will use the diet to enhance my practice and the lives of my coworkers and patients.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hi Jim
Thank you so much for this wonderful event and all the other work you do. Just reading folks entries is so heart touching, it makes grand prize winners of us all.
Ok why should I get the prize,
I have worked with Dr Ann is the past while she was in Boston. I was a counselor and many of my clients did volunter work for her. She had asked me if I knew of anyone who could help repaint the stairway and rebuild the grow room. Low and behold yes I did!
I was also often amazed at the work she was doing in India and saddened when it ended. The mal-nutrition there is so previlant many do to poor education and lack of knowledge. Many of the resources needed to open an Ann Wigmore based facility is already there.
Dr Ann was at first surprised at how fast folks would heal and become healthy there compared to the US. And later she discovered that in India they did not have as many toxins as we do, rather they just needed healthy foods and good nutrition.
I am currently building a guest house and retreat center in Bodhgaya India in the middle if Bihar, one of the poorest parts of India.
Over 40 % of the village children do not reach age 20..and over 50% of the world’s blind live in India with 70% being preventable. The main causes poor diets leading to week immune systems unable to handle the extreeme heat and rain seasons.
I am working with the Tibetan and Local Hindi and Muslim communities to build a garden center as part of our guest house/ My goal is to have it based on Dr Ann’s principles and provide some nurishment to the Local Villagers as well as provide a nice healing retreat area for western visitors.
I feel the home study program would better en-able me to share the ideas and concepts needed for the local community to truely understand just what I am sharing with. And to help them in creating and maintaining a center of their own!
Thanks so much
Arthur Collins
April 28th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Hello raw food world!
I do not have the capabilities of doing a video so I will try to express my feelings with words.
I am so grateful I found CHI and the home study course. It has enabled me to help myself, my friends, my loved ones, and my elderly Mother. I began my search for health when my Mother became very ill. The doctors were not helping her very much and I knew there had to be a better way. I began bringing her raw fruit & green smoothies while she was still in the hospital.
She wouldn’t eat the hospital food anyway. She loved them and as time went on she got brighter, stronger, and happier. She was feeling so good I was able to bring her home. I truly believe raw food has added the last 4 years to her life. She is now 86 and takes care of herself during the day and I am with her after work in the evenings. She walks the dog, takes care of her cats, and fixes her own breakfast & lunch.
I have 2 grown boys and they have changed their way of eating after seeing what it did for their Grandmother. My Sister has made major changes to lessen the pain in her knees from arthritis.
Thank you Ann Wigmore for creating this life saving way of life for anyone who wants it. And thank you Jim for making it available to all.
Sincerely,
Arlyne
April 28th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I want to thank you for honoring the main format of Ann´s hard work. In 31 years of implementing Ann´s philosophies with dealing first with breast cancer…liver cancer and autoimmune disease, I have been able to rear my boys and now help with their families. I am saddened at times, especially the last ten years, to see so many “raw foodists”,take credit for the pioneering work of Ann.
Thank you for making material available…at a reasonable cost or better yet, many times free! Many families with major health problems are struggling to make ends meet and often do not have the resources to change their lifestyles so drastically.
Thank you again for your work!
Susan
April 28th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I have been struggling with with obesity for years–and now find that I have high blood pressure and stress in my chest. I really feel enthusiastic about the live food lifestyle and fully believe in its health benefits (and have begun to experience some of these benefits as well as spiritual and ecological benefits), but I am having a very difficult time sticking to even an 80% live food diet and losing any significant weight loss or health gain. There is no real support for this in my community, and it is hard to know how some of the food is supposed to look (no less its texture and taste). As my income is extremely limited, I feel that I am precluded from purchasing the home study course on my own. I am determined but very frustrated, and feel the need for maximum support.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hi Jim,
Firstly, I want to say that it’s great you’re spreading the words of Ann Wigmore. I am only now starting to read about eating a raw diet. It seems challenging especially when you’re married, and it’s not just me in the house.
I have been suffering from eczema for years, and I feel that this diet will really help me. It’s so foreign and complex for a new raw eater, I don’t know where to start.
1. I feel that I should win this course because I really want to change my eating habits.
2. I think this lifestyle will be the key to overcoming my eczema.
Thanks!
Jason
April 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I am on a journey towards total health and well-being with the practices of yoga, meditation, and diet. I believe that the raw food diet is the best way to eat and live on the planet. I want total vibrant health with raw foods and natural living. I would like to take what I learn and teach it to children. It believe that if we introduce children to the raw food diet - showing them how beautiful real food is, how it can change your life physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually (raw food has a high vibration), we can change the nation. It can happen one child at a time. They no longer have to be victims of the SAD diet. Raw food can help them find their inner joy and connection to nature. This is what I would like to do if I win the new raw food home study.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Hi Jim,
Back in August 2006, I had a big accident while going back to Montreal (from New York) with Greyhound bus. Since then, I experienced depression, panic attack, post-traumatic stress and fibromyalgia. I tried raw food for 3 weeks and my quality of life improved a lot! I would even say, saved my lfe and my relation with my husband. However, I feel I need more guidance to help me with raw food. I don’t know everything and since I still have fibromyalgia pain (I don’t eat raw 100% yet), I cannot make a lot of research on Internet when I have “attack” so the course will help me to get all the information I need to improve my quality of life.
Once I switched to raw food, I plan to deliver the message to all peoples who experiences illness (or not) and help them to overcome it.
Karine
April 28th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I have a visions that i will help save lives with the information giving through this teaching. In my work place i see so much sickness,for the past 3 years i have been serving in my church nutrition ministry and seeing first hand lives tuning around going back to the garden eating. I believe raw eating is what God truly intended for us, and this will bring us back to total health the way God create our bodies.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Hi Jim, thank you for your generosity of spirit that shines through the work you do. The Home Study Course has been at the top of my “to do” list for months now, ever since you suggested it as an alternative for someone with a young child who couldn’t travel and take the course away from home. I have read every book the library has on the raw lifestyle, but the home study course will allow me to study it more formally so that I can apply the teachings and reflect what I learn outwardly and hopefully inspire many others as you have inspired me. Thank you, Kari
April 28th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
This is fantastic. Thank you for the offer. I am a professional house painter and deal with chemicals all the time. While my industry is moving in positive directions there is still a long way to go in protecting the painters from harmful substances. I have played around with a raw food diet but would benefit from more constructive information. I feel a raw lifestyle would offset the dangers I deal with. I am also overweight and have struggled for years with it. I need an overhaul and would hopefully be able to influence people once they saw how great I look. I am also working at changing fields and am learning energy healing for people and mostly animals. I have a husky dog who is big time beating odds with cancer. My holistic views need a kick in the rear. The home study course would be just the ticket. Again thanks for all your helpful e-mails. In peace and love!
April 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I believe that there are people above and below me that need it much more than me. I would love to receive it as money is very tight(as I’m sure it is with most people right now). I hope you consider me.
Misty
April 28th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I would love to win the course since I am a person that shares information with others and am concerned with the issues of health. I have been reading about raw food for some years but naturally I require to go the whole nine yards in complete understanding so I could assist more people and give them a true educated response after studing the course. That last reason is that I would like to make a career with being a raw food advisor and would have to wait until my finances are in order to purchase the program.
Raw food is the most natural way for all living things and this would take away some of the health issues that arise in my daily living. All the nutrients and enzymes would be readily available for my body to digest and many problems would be solved.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I know without a doubt the healing powers of raw foods. For, I have seen the raw living food diet work with my own eyes, healing two cancer patients. Everyone I encounter that is sick and with disease I try to share the knowledge of using raw food to heal and the Creative Health Inst. with them. I think I could be much more effective If I had the home study course to share with them. and was the picture of health myself. I’m located in Cleveland, Ohio many people here are poor, unemployed and or underemployed as I am, and can not afford to go to the CHI in order to heal themselves. If awarded the home Study course, I would share the home study course free of charge and start a raw food support group from my home or the public library. I admitt I don’t eat as much raw as I would like to myself. I know if I has the home study program I would have more discipline to do so.The diet will help me to achieve health by suppying my body with live foods. For life only comes from life. My two children have given up eating meat, which is a start. I would also love to see my entire family go raw together and heal together
April 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hi Jim,
It is my desire to learn from the best and the information you have shared has taken my life to another level. I lost both my parents to cancer, but I am a 19 year breast cancer survivor. I was so excited to reach my 50th birthday, that I made my mission to share the gift of health (food education) to all who will listen. I want to be a part of the REAL health movement. I believe you can’t get you wealth without your health and people need and deserve to know the truth. I know that by having Ann’s program I can continue to share the importance of our fearful and wonderful body through eating live foods. I want others to know how easy it can be if you do it. To me this is the REAL “Lifestyles of the Rich (healthy) and Famous”! We have a world out there to reach and Ann’s work needs to be heard.
Audrey
April 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Hi Jim My name is Dave Holub
I suffer from Leg Infections like a Staff Infectons every other month, I have been in the Hospital for a week 3 times so far and have been in the Emgercy Room Several times the Doctor’s do not know how to stop this infection. I feel the Raw Food Diet would help me Stop this infection and that is why I would like to Receive a
Free Home of Ann Wigmore’s sudy course. If I had the money I would get one but i have not been able to Work
Thank you for your time
April 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Hey Jim-
Thank you for sharing your story- it is inspiring to see what is possible with the chi diet.
Well- I am a Mom of 6 and now a granmother of 11 with 2 more on the way.
I learned of Dr. Ann years ago when we sold VitaMix machines in the fairs. Her teachings have stood the test of time and I am so happy to see that someone is able to deep her legacy alive.
I would dearly love to have this course, not only for myself, who needs tons of help, but would love to be able to teach this to the next generation as part of our homeschool program. They will grow up knowing the right things to eat and do and maybe won’t have such a struggle to grow up healthier than we did. Thanks again for all you do.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
About 7 years ago I was introduced to Ann Wigmore’s health program. Initially, I was a bit apprehensive about it as I doubted the effectiveness of it. My curosity got the best of me and I decided to give it a try as my health problems were not improving as I continued to get diagnosis such as fibromialgia, reflux, IBS, and cluster headaches. The chemical meds were making me feel worse, not better. My first experience of a raw food diet was for a week and I continued with my annual one week raw food diet for two years, increasing my visits to two weeks and eventually three weeks. I discovered Creative Health Institute and had the opportunity to visit last summer for a seminar and enjoyed the best raw food dinner I have ever experienced. It was this dining experience that made me realize that if I had the “know how”, I could follow a raw food diet. I have reached a point in my life where I am having vegan meals 4 to 5 days a week. However, I have also reached a point where I recognize that my body responds best to a raw food diet. My blood pressure dropped to normal and my cholesterol dropped 50 points after 1 week. My energy level is unbelievable and no foggy brain following my raw food sojourn. I also recognize that I need more training and support from a proven and knowledgable source to maintain the optimum health status that I have previously experienced from the raw food diet.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
First of all I love the courses.
I am on a mission to Raise Awareness & Accountability for the choices we make. I am focusing on consumers of Energy products, education is key! So many people know they need something, they just don’t realize how simple it is to increase natural energy through diet and good nutrition. That is why I should win this amazing course that can help so many more than myself, and not become just a beautiful book on shelf somewhere.
I have just lesson one of the old course and have a great desire for the entire set. I am 35 pounds overweight and have played the diet roller coaster for years now. I have discovered that the only thing that gets my internal system working smoothly is eating RAW. The rest of my family is not so willing to change and that makes for my struggle. I gain day by day. This past weekend I ate several fruit cups that I had actually prepared for a fundraiser and discover just how well they get my backed up system working ever so nicely.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hi, I live in italy and 2 years ago start my raw food lifestyle. I was very happy about my health, but one last April I became pregnant and nobody in Italy could help me to follow a raw diet. Now I can’t start my raw diet because of nursing…because in Italy is impossible to find a guide in this period so important for a woman. For these reason I think to need your course, so that I can came back to raw as soon as possible.
Laura
April 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Thank you for your gracious offer of a free book. I would love to receive your book to boost me on a path of eating raw. I have been looking at the raw food diet for 3 years, and have made a few recipies. My Dr said she didn’t want me eating raw because it would be extra work on my thyroid to heat the food. I would like to prove her wrong.
Thanks for considering me.
Gail
April 28th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
WHY SHOULD I WIN …. ?
Well, I was so disappointed not to be able to buy the previous course because of a lack of money… I could finally buy separately part of the DVDs and I litterally “swallowed” their contents !
These teachings are so precious to me, particularly at this very moment… I am trying to set up, with my daughter, a small business of restaurant for raw, vegan, living foods here in France (in the Loire Valley), and it is quite a challenge when you have no money at all. But finally it seems that it will be soon possible.
Here we are still very far from the expanding trend of the States’ Raw food movement, and it is quite a tough time for raw vegans to eat out of home. In the town we expect to set this business there is not a vegetarian restaurant, and of course not an organic one ! We both want to spread the word.
I would like to tell to the most people possible why this way of eating is beneficial for their health, I intend to explain them, to show, to demonstrate as much as I can within this food activity which is one of the best place to do it.
Even if I have already made a very long way in the path of healthy foods, I know that I really need “structured” teachings to improve my knowledge, and to be able to “teach” in my turn, that is why I had be longing for the previous course, and why I shall still be longing for the new one (as I shall not be able to afford it) !!!
WHY I FEEL THE RAW FOOD DIET WILL HELP ME ACHIEVE GREATER HEALTH ?
Because I have already experienced it…
I was already vegetarian, I had two cancers in my life (one 17 years ago, another one 4 years ago), I have suffered of very bad migraines for over thirty years and time to time had some pain of arthritis (though not quite bad).
Last fall, suddenly (but after many various researches) I thought I had to go raw vegan. It was just an obviousness, like a veil falling off my eyes : I had understood something else ! Today I am on day 14th of a juice feast (for a deeper cleansing)… And I must say that since the day I went raw : not a migraine has come (this never happened before in 30 and more years…) and not even the slightest pain of arthritis arose ! But, and that is not the least I am now experiencing a quality of energy I don’t remember I have ever have ! That is really very strange and wonderful at the same time !
So, Yes, I am quite sure that this way of living is the best and will help me to achieve a greater health… my various experiences assure me of that.
I know that I am going ahead on this path with all my heart. Some people seeing me are already trying to go the same way… and this is so rewarding and so encouraging.
So sorry not to have a webcam to make a video !
And congratulations for your various and so useful actions.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Raw food can restore people’s lives - making dying flowers bloom again. In this way, though it will not save the world, it will make it a better place.
I want to live my life to help heal the dying, the troubled, the hopeless. You can help to equip me that I might be the example of health that could change someone’s life.
As for me, a healthy raw-food diet will help me overcome my health and emotional issues. It will move me closer to what I was created to be. And it will show those around me that there is a different way, a path to health that’s beautiful.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Why should I win? Oh for so many reasons, but my first request would be, to be the 2nd grand prize winner. Why? After reading all the entries, I feel that Arthur Collins should be the first grand prize winner.
Now back to me, I am a raw food teacher in Northern Canada. Edmonton, Alberta to be exact.I hold classes that fill with 20 students, and all the knowledge that I have I empart to them. It is a passion that I feel when I see the changes that come about for them. I feel that winning this would only enhance my knowledge that then can be passed onto them, leaving them with more expertise, and me with more to feel as they themselves change. As a teacher yourself, you will be able to understand this wonderful emotion that you feel when students thank you for their shifts and their health returning.
However, if you feel that someone else is more deserving than I, please move on and offer it to them. Positive thoughts to you always. Viki
April 28th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I believe I am a great candidate for the free home study course and consultation. I have been working with incorporating the raw food lifestyle for about 6 months. I took myself off of anti-depressants because I didn’t feel that they were helping me (3 different medicaitons)and I didn’t want to put drugs in my body anymore. Lately, I have noticed that my depression is back and I am really struggling, so much so that I am withdrawing from people and activities I normally love to do. I believe that the home study course will help me to stay on tract and educate me enough that I can conquer my depression once and for all and be an inspiration to my family and others as well as an educator.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hi Jim, I would like to receive the free study because—- I will share with many people. I volunteer
at the senior college and will share Ann’s knowledge to
more than just myself. I will be giving a juice demo
at the raw spirit fest, so come and see me. I would love to receive it not only for me but many,many others.
Thanks
April 28th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Thank you for this opportunity to be able to increase my knowledge of raw food to further increase others knowledge of raw. I have been living and teaching others for over 5 years and always looking for more knowledge to give back. I have had countless benefits from living this way and the benefits also increase with each year that passes….. no longer on high blood pressure medication…..high blood cholesterol medication…… blood sugar regulators….hypothyroid medication….. sight better without tri focal.. and bifocal clear glass……hearing is up to 60 percent in what was a near deaf ear..etc, etc, etc. Hoorah for the chance to learn more enabling to teach more.
Peace!
April 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Jim,
What a fantastic opportunity you are giving two lucky people here. You ask why I feel I should win the course?!? Well, it’s because I want to help people. I have been keeping this course in the back of my head for about two years now just waiting for the time when I would be able to afford it. That time has never come yet. I became interested in the raw food lifestyle about two years ago and have learned so much and gotten so excited about it. However, I have struggled to make the transition because the resources in my home town are so limited. But back in Feb of this year I got fed up and decided that it was time to take control. I started a Juice Feast and have continued to study about the raw food lifestyle while sipping my juice all day long. Now I am about two weeks from the end (92 days total) where I will transition back to solid foods and am excited and terrified at the same time. Personally this has been such an amazing journey but also I have become so excited about helping others. I really feel that this course would give me what I need to help people. I talk to everyone I can about food and health and it would be really nice if I could put some credentials behind what I’m saying.
You second question is loaded! Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health? I can answer it simply by saying that it’s quite obviously the most optimal diet for humans. Or I could launch into a huge essay that would fill volumes. Haha! You know all the why’s and wherefor’s so the essay probably isn’t neccessary.
Thanks again for the fantastic opportunity!!!
Kirsten
April 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Hello Jim,
Thank you so much for this opportunity to win this course. After reading the comments of others entering, I know there is so much need for this information, and so many of us that are unable to afford it.
I have been working for two years trying to learn all I can about the raw food life style. I live on social security and have several health disorders and I know in my heart they could all be helped or cured with this diet. I just can’t seem to get a handle on how to do so many things, most of the food I ‘create’ is inedible. I know there has to be a better way. I have finally been able to get all the appliances except a food dehydrator one a time, and feel the next step is a good home study course.
I am a minister with a small charter Church Center and a large family that I try to assist. I know this information could help all of this group.
I hope this will be a drawing so it will be completely fair. Thank you so much,
Lela
April 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Wow - Thanks everyone for all the great responses!
I wanted to let you know that I will be personally reading over ALL of the contest comments.
Again, the deadline is Friday…
Oh yea, you can leave more than 1 comment :)
- Jim
April 28th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Because I need help. I have an autoimmune disease that causes me a lot of fatique and painful joints, rosacea, and am hypothroid. I beleive the right nutrition can help me trememdously. I have several of Ann’s books and do juice wheatgrass. But I get lost after that.
I also, publish a magazine and coach people about health and changing lifestyles. This would be of great benefit in helping me reach others.
I look forward to all your emails. Good luck with this new production.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Raw foodists seem happy and vibrant. Truth is, I am not. Tried several times, but never successful. Going through tough times, disease, depression, unemployment, etc. Hoping to turn it around and find youthful health, happiness and purpose again. I’ve met you, you walk your talk. You are happy and healthy. Actually, I want that too.
Thanks for your positive energy and contribution to peoples health.
Best wishes to you,
Brock
April 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I have 6 main reasons for hoping to ”win” or I’d rather say gain, one of the 2 free home study courses! I have 4 kiddos, myself and hubby = 6!! What a great gift you have given just in the chance of giving away 2 courses, and as I read through the emails, it has to be a tough decision!! There are so many deserving people of the awesome knowledge shared in the course!
I myself, am very interested in the raw food diet for health reasons, for myself and my children - but really am interested, as a student to learn. I have read here and there, but would LOVE the course to study in detail, what all the nutrients, enzymes and diet consists of. The teachings and study of Dr. Ann Wigmore, her life and what knowledge she gained, is fascinating and the longevity in her life.
Thanx for the opportunity to even have the smallest chance in possibly winning - and for teaching me how to blog! This is my first shot - you learn something new everyday! Have an awesome one! Sincerely, Jodi L. Kray
April 28th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I have started on the raw vegan foods oddessy. It is slow going, as I am not a vegetable lover to begin with. Over the last few years, I have started to juice, make smoothies, learn to like new fruits and veggies, gradually wean myself off of cheap carbs(I have a bad addiction to them, so it is slow going, though this last few months have been so much better).
My mom went to the CHI a year and a half ago, she has taught me a lot, and given me much encouragement.
I am middle aged, overweight(though now losing) have a few health issues creeping up on me, with a family history of heart trouble, diabetes and personally having an ovarian tumor removed. I want more information and help with this odessy of learning and getting healthy.
Shelene
April 28th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Currently facing surgery for multiple stones in my throat and masses on both sides of the thyroid — possible cancer. Cat scan will be this Wed and Thursday with biopsy to follow. Friends tell me diet plays a part in this matter. I am curious. I enjoyed a raw foods banquet at CHI when a friend invited me there after her two week stint.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I am interested in learning more of the raw lifestyle
to enable me (and my husband) to minister to the needs
of others, as well as implementing it ourselves. There
are many differing opinions which have led to a bit of
confusion and now want to “get it right.” As I will be
celebrating my 54th birthday tomorrow, I am excited
about what I can accomplish this next year in helping
others to understand that they too can live a healthy,
vibrant abundant life! Many thanks for all that you
have done to share valuable informtion.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I am entering this contest - for me, and to share. I am a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed IIIA August of 2005 (months after turning 40!). I did a combination of treatments. And increasing/deepening the journey on all levels.
Part of that is looking to go raw, or mainly raw. I can use support and education. It can feel challenging. Right now, I’m doing loads of salads ;) I am under additional testing currently.
I know the more I can continue to learn and empower myself in *all* ways, the best chances I have for being here well beyond the survival statistics they gave me (50% in 5 years - not fun to hear the year you turned 40!)
I’ve been health conscious for years. And I know I can continue to improve that by going raw. I’m doing loads of other work (spiritual, energetic, improving regular exercise, etc..)
I also am an intuitive healing coach and teacher, as well as creative artist. I utilize all I know to help heal and empower others.
The gift of this program will not only greatly benefit *me* (which is worth enough to ask) *and* it will be paid forward. Thank you.
Deep gratitude and sincerity - Aileen
April 28th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
God Bless all of you that have submitted requests to win the free home course…I was going to state my case, but now I feel guilty and undeserving….I had a family member cause me so much pain and stress, that I left the vegan lifestyle and ate my way to bad health.
I, too, would like to try this course, but social security does not permit the cost. Since there are so many people more deserving than I am, I will just wish you all the very best, and maybe I can find someone to help me figure out this lifestyle on the net. I AM going to change my eating habits, and improve my life, because I know from comments posted and the video, that it is the right thing to do…thank you for the opportunity to comment and READ your comments. I will continue to return to this site for support…Joanne S.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
WHOOPS….. I forgot to say that I am 73 and KNOW that is is never to late to learn new things and to share them with others….Joanne S.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hi James!
I do not have the lofty or needy reasons to win this prize as many of the above entrants. I have always wanted it. I have teetered on being totally raw for three years now. I am ready to get down to it. I am an example to two daughters, and seven grandchildren, and an expanding family of close friends with children who call me ‘Nanny’. They think I am crazy, but still try my smoothies and like them, among other of my favorite raw foods. I need more information, and I am ready for it now. Thank you for the opportunity to recieve this wonderful work of yours, a true gift.
Sincerely,
Patte
April 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I do not have a ‘right’ to win the homestudy.
I own Ann’s books first hand. I trust my instinct.
Thank you for the why suffer e-book.It worked.Nice to have it on the computer in addition to the bookshelf.
With cordial greetings to all who are on the path of overcomming our wrong conditioning,
Sabine.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
ARTIST SEEKS HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHANGES ~ PERMANENTLY!
i believe that we could all benefit from this generous gift! am i any more in need of or worthy of it? who can say…
we are ALL beautiful creatures striving for love and wellness. sure, i’m scratching pennies together, but many are; and the universe does provide, and for that, i am grateful. sure, i have negative health-related issues, but are we not all imperfect as humans, and perhaps found this site by searching for a new way?
since changing my eating to @ 50-70% raw/living foods i have been experiencing a fresh and new-found outlook in general, as well as more positive behaviors toward myself and others. {bonus!}
as i try to make way closer to the full raw way of eating, i notice how we are constantly being blessed with the nourishing gifts of the earth!
benefits thus far:
quitting cigs was a snap! (i’m smoke-free 2.5 months now.)
bye bye processed foods, hello living greens! (and reds, and yellows, and oranges, etc.) FEEL the difference!
hungry for more knowledge,
violet
April 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Hi,
I would love to have a copy of the course. I’ve read much about raw foods and believe that this is the right way to eat, both physically and morally. We don’t just owe it to ourselves but to this incredible planet that we live on. These foods in the raw diet are bountiful enough for the world and yet we persist in growning crops to feed our cattle and chickens and not to those who really need it. There’s no need for people to be hungry other than others greed. A raw food diet would cut down on cooking fuels, feed lots where cattle are sent for fattening and produce an incredible amount of methane gas. Also should be mentioned the deplorable conditions that they are slaughtered. The raw food diet makes for a kinder and gentler planet. As Annie Phyo points out, look at lack of waste. Little to no packaging, most can be put in a composter. Let’s give back to our planet rather than just keep taking!!!
Thanks, Kali
April 28th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Wow. Lots of good feedback. Find recipes and B12 tips at http://www.chiDiet.net
Jim
April 28th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
HI Jim,
Thank you for the opportunity to win the home study course! I’ve looked into going to the school to take the course…but could not leave my family for that long. I, like many others in this blog, lost 4 family members to cancer within 2 1/2 years…scary stuff. Since the beginning of 2005 I have not eaten sugar or flour, I have lost 70 lbs of toxic fat and have begun to incorporate the raw food way of living for myself and my family. Recently my husband made a website for me (Happy2beme.com) to share healthy information and recipes. In the short time that we’ve had it going…about 2 months…we are up to 50 visitors per day. I would also share the information that I learn with people through the website. I agree that we need to get the word out about healthy eating and it needs to get to as many people as fast as possible. There is a huge need for this kind of information right now…and I believe that God wants me to be a part of getting it out to people. I would love to win the course for myself, my family and for the people who go to my website.
Thanks again for the opportunity!
Sandee
April 28th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I just got word from my web guy about “How to leave a Video Comment” and here’s what he said:
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1. Click on the link at the bottom of the page that says “Record a Video Comment!”
2. To leave a video comment if you do not have a Viddler account click on the link, “Sign up right here!”
3. When you have signed up, simply start recording from your camera and leave me your contest entry.
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Ok, I hope that helps :)
I’d love to see some video’s!!
- Jim
April 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
well, it seems when you read everyones answers they are all in some kind of desperate need. i hate thinking that there will be any losers, considering that this is like a last stitch effort for help for most of us. so to everyone, i hope and pray that the Lord help direct you on your path to physical wellnes.. my story is not much different. i have had physical problems for about ten yrs now, most recently though with in the last few mos my husband said he saw them getting increasingly worse. i have three small babies and am not able to be the mother they need or that i wanted to be. it breaks my heart. i have tried and spent about every penny we have on finding an answer for wellness and ive always come up short. i saw a woman who trained under dr wigmore but she got so expensive and was limited on the info she would share so i didnt get much from that. this would just be such a tremendous blessing to be able to get some real help and it would effect not only me but the generation of my children and my childrens children. ty
April 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I have done a lot of looking into the raw food diet,because I am very overweight.I have tried other diets and they haven’t worked or they are to expensive for the food or club they want you to join.I tried a couple of them and I felt worse off then I was before.I was doing research on the internet and came across a couple of articles on how a raw food diet can help you lose weight and get better health.I think this course will help me to better understand the concepts of a raw food lifestyle.I know it will take committment from me to do it,but I would really love to try it and know more about a raw food lifestyle.I have looked into Anne Wigmores how she believed in a raw food how it helps people to have a healthier lifestyle.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I would be grateful if selected to participate in your home study program. I am a single mom of 3 children and 45 years of age. I have recently been diagnosed (3 weeks ago)with abnormal cells in the cervix and I have very cystic breasts. Most recently (3 weeks ago)it was revealed that one of the cyst is a tumor and I will need to have a biopsy to determine the tumor type. I have had 2 c-sections and 5 other surgeries in my lifetime. I am determined that I will not go that route again. I have read many stories of how eating a live raw diet has so many benefits and helped to cure many diseases. I believe that a raw diet and the home study program will help and be a great benefit to me and my family.
Thank you for your consideration.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Hi Jim,
i’ve been reading your emails for a long while now. but never had the extra monies to purchase the course. i do the best i could on my own trying to implament raw foods in my diet. i’ve had cervical and 2 lumber operations that didn’t quite work out. so i’m in pain 24/7 and out of work.i also have my parents that are not well, 1 is a diabetic and other has emphazema. and i think if i could have the course it would teach me how to help my parents and myself to heal with the help of motherearths gifts…and Jim i know there are others more deserving to win it for free, so if maybe i could work out a payment plan for the course? thanks for all of your wisdom you pass onto us.
Elaine
P.S please forgive my spelling.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hi Jim,
i’ve been reading your emails for a long while now. but never had the extra monies to purchase the course. i do the best i could on my own trying to implament raw foods in my diet. i’ve had cervical and 2 lumber operations that didn’t quite work out. so i’m in pain 24/7 and out of work.i also have my parents that are not well, 1 is a diabetic and other has emphazema. and i think if i could have the course it would teach me how to help my parents and myself to heal with the help of motherearths gifts…and Jim i know there are others more deserving to win it for free, so if maybe i could work out a payment plan for the course? thanks for all of your wisdom you pass onto us.
Laine
P.S please forgive my spelling.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Jim,
I tried to leave a blog comment but somehow I could not get on, anyhow I want to try for the Free Raw Food Home Course set.
The answer to why I should win the course would be to help others take responsibilty of their health to heal by watching it at my center.
The second answer I already exerience because I healed and also became aware of living on a daily basis.
Thanks I hope you get this. Elizabeth Kapadia GWAH Healing Way Institute, Inc. 954-303-8533
April 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hi Jim,
I have had cronic sinus infection most of my life and am getting to where anti-biotics dont work much any more. Five years ago I became a Wyoming Master Gardener and was ask to grow wheat grass for cancer patients to juice. I begain using it myself and have had great success. I now grow lettuce and spinach and sell it to a Health Food Store and a local Restuarant. I now know that growing and eatting local organic raw foods make you feel and function better. I feel that I should win the course because, although I know some about raw foods I have so much more to learn and this would be a great way to gather more information. I feel like I am still missing something.
Thank you for the opportunity,
Ronda
April 28th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Hi Jim,
you have inspired many to tell there story fantastic.
I am sitting here patiently waiting for you to release V2 for which I will buy for my family and myself’s health benefits.
If you were to chose me as a winner I would pass it straight over to:
“arthur Says:April 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm”.
The bennifit of 1 program there will have a such a great impact on human suffering.
I am filled with grace and gratitude for the opportunity for such a possibility.
colin pine
April 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Thanks Jim, Looks like a lot of compelling stories, so here is mine. I’m 49yo chiropractor who had to stop practicing last year due to an unspecific thyroiditis that has not let me benefit from sleep(always tired),hand tremors and severe anxiety, depression. Just recently I have been diagnosed with prostte cancer.My disability policy won’t pay anything, therefor my plans to visit The Anne Wigmore Istitute in Puerto Rico is on hold. I have always used enzyme therapy on my ptients, so the philosophy of Living Foods make sense and I would like to learn the ins and outs. Thanks again
April 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
After reading the above comments, I should not even enter, but since it’s open to all… I would love to win
one of the two available. I am a 69 year old female will be 70 in July, and this would be a great birthday gift to me. I have been practicing raw for 1 1/2 years, one year straight. And now I need to get back on tract because the results are so great. If I don’t win one, I
will surely understand, because I don’t have any health
challenges, and I believe raw will keep me free of any in the future.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Four years ago I was diagnoses with stage four breast cancer. My research has led me to a raw food diet. I have been trying to be a raw foodest but it has been difficult. I don’t have support but I have all the equipment, a Vita Mix, Excalibar Dehydrator, and a food processor. The problem is I don’t know what I’m doing. I have been at this for four years and I have thrown away a lot of food that just didn’t turn out right. Is it that I can’t prepare meals or what? I hope I win, it will sure make my life a lot tastier and I can finally transition. I won’t continue to make so many mistakes.
Thanks for all the information you give. Be Blessed.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I’d eaten cooked and felt the pain
Of illness and a huge weight gain
And then I stumbled on the raw
Felt blessed with all the change I saw
Emotions lifted, weight dropped off
I lost the eczema and the cough
But then life threw me stress and pain
And so I turned to cooked again
But since I’ve felt the pull of raw
Then got the email about your course
And knew that if I wrote and won
Fulfilments of my dreams would come
My vibrance would return and then
My love of life would come again
And I would promise then to be
The very change I wish to see
If I am blessed enough to get the opportunity of benefiting from this course, I will put my best into learning, growing and passing the love of live foods on.
Thank you for your time
Be happy
Bernie
xxx
April 28th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I’ve been interested in following a raw food diet for some time. In 2006, I was able to lose 33 pounds on a raw food diet. Then, had some family issues and started eating cooked food again. Have been trying to get back to raw since then, but in the meantime developed some health issues that will only be healed with raw and so am headed back in that direction. I think the program would not only help me, but I am willing to help others see the benefits of a healthy raw lifestyle.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I should win a free course so that I can share it with others. I have been to The Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico, and to the Creative Health Institute in Michigan. The initial program in 2005 got me started in a living foods lifestyle, and the second program in March of 2008 took me further into the practice. Now that CHI is under new managment, I hope to take a lot of people from Fort Wayne and other parts of Indiana and introduce them to Dr. Ann’s wisdom.
Raw living food will help me gain and maintain good health because there is proper nutrition in rejuvelac, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts, and wheatgrass juice.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Hormann
April 28th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I’d like to think that I’m healthy, but I know I’m not. I’d like to improve my health and vitality, and I know that Raw Foods are the way to go., but I don’t know where to start. It’s often too easy to just give up and eat cooked/processed foods, even though I know I could probably spend less time and money doing things the healthy option. I’d like to learn how - the Home Study Course would be my answered prayer.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Once a long time ago there was a chubby loving little girl who lived through some very rough times. She went through 3 daddy’s even though only 1 ever lived up to the name. The other 2 only brought abuse and molestation into her life. This little girl learned to pray and pray hard as there was no one else she could really talk to.
When she was a teenager she met a boy. She put on her rosy glasses and chose to love and trust him with her inner most self. He was the first who really knew her. This beautiful blue eyed, blond hair boy taught her all he knew about being a vegetarian.
They grew as did their family on beautiful 3-7 day old wheat grass and other wonderful non meat and cheese dishes. Even though what she ate seemed healthy enough she continued to gain over 60lbs and so she ate more sprouts and grass and found she did not have the sweet cravings anymore and she started loosing the weight. She was so energetic.
Things happened life changed. The wonderful boy began to be visited more and more by an ugly monster called paranoia and everything was always the young mothers fault. She was visited more and more frequently by the horrible spirit of depression until she wanted to just end it all. The little family started eating meat and cheeses again because that was what the government would provide for them. And they only got worse.
The wife put on more and more weight as her body became so very toxic. Arthritis set in as well as high blood pressure. Though she wanted to get better and her sweet husband would tell her at the top of his lungs that it was all because of her bad attitude, she just became more depressed. It was very rare that she didn’t cry, but she wouldn’t give up because she now had 4 beautiful children to raise and someone had to be strong for them.
The sweet husband was such a close friend to paranoia that he lost his job and the young family went homeless for 3 years. As his rages worsened the children were endangered and so they chose to separate.
The very tearful mother found her first real job in 15 yrs and went to work. The children were put into public education because she was no longer there to home school them. She made great strides in the next 5 yrs until the long hours and stress brought back that horrible spirit of depression so bad that she couldn’t find reason to leave her bed to go to work. She lost position after position because she had no schooling which only made her feel trapped and more depressed.
She knew that if she didn’t get the schooling she needed then she would never have a job she could support her family with. Also her now teenagers needed to know how important it was to get an education. In the meantime she would support her family on just under $600 a month and not qualify for help because she is a student. Her roof leaks and her water in her trailer froze and burst the pipes that she can’t afford to have fixed until the next student loan, but that will not stop her.
She cries a lot because of all the bills past due and the debt, but she will not quit because she doesn’t want her children to quit and end up with the same financial heartache she faces.
The one problem she has that makes it all worse is that she gets so sick so easily and she has lived through a time when she knows how good it felt to be healthy and cleaned out and yet she can’t seem to get back there. She has prayed for strength and has been witnessed to many times that she could be heeled and have more energy and suffer less depression and think clearer thoughts if she were to go raw but she has no energy to figure out how.
I am so sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.
God Bless
April 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I have version 1 and would love to get version 2. But, reading some of the other responses I see that others need it more than I do. Let me say to everyone, the rawfood lifestyle, the Ann Wigmore Lifestyle, can change your life. It changed mine. I had Clinical Depression with suicidal tendencies, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, high cholesterol, and was morbidly obese. All this has changed. You can do it, too. My prayers go out to everyone seeking renewed health.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Hey Jim,
I have been struggling with acne and severe skin problems for many many years. I have tried everything in the book from diet changes to food combining to multiple medications ultimately causing more harm than good to my body. I truly believe that Ann Wigmore’s home study program will finally put me on the road to healing after so many years of failure. This information could benefit me in ways that could change my overall physical, mental and emotional state. I really would like to just feel good about myself once and for all, not to mention feel physically better.
Thanks
April 28th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Im in the midst of research for an informative, entertaining and successful feature length documentary on the raw food movement in New Zealand and Australia. Through the people i meet and the information i recieve, I will be able to bring to the attention of the world the endless possibilities of self healing, self love and respect, and opening awareness of the world we live in, connnectivity to our community, our planet and a compassionate heart - can this really be done all through ones change to a high raw food lifestyle?
If i am armed with the fundematal information - as the A.W program would include.. then not only would my quesitons be educated and precise, but also we would be able to spread the message futher and clearer!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
About a year ago my physician casually mentioned “you are in Stage 3 kidney failure” and proceeded to do nothing about it except prescribe some meds which eventually put me into Stage 5 kidney disease - resulting in hospitalization. Belated reading of the contraindications disclosed the toxicity of the meds.
I know I need to detoxify - but sure is easy to put off beginning.
I’ve read a bit on raw food detoxification and lifestyle - and know this would be the best thing for me yet continue to procrastinate.
Being one of the Grand Prize winners might be the jump start I need.
Thanks for the consideration!
Phil
April 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
About a year ago my physician casually mentioned “you are in Stage 3 kidney failure” and proceeded to do nothing about it except prescribe some meds which eventually put me into Stage 5 kidney disease - resulting in hospitalization. Belated reading of the contraindications disclosed the toxicity of the meds.
I know I need to detoxify - but sure is easy to put off beginning.
I’ve read a bit on raw food detoxification and lifestyle - and know this would be the best thing for me yet continue to procrastinate.
Most likely I don’t “deserve” to win the Grand Prize but being one of the Grand Prize winners might be the jump start I need.
Thanks for the consideration!
Phil
April 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I would like to win the raw food course onbehalf of the Camarillo Johrei Center. At our center we help several people with cancer,EI,autsim and other health issues. We have Johrei healing ,nature farm foods and flower arranging. The raw food diet augments well with Johrei’s Japanese natural foods ideals while taking it to the next level of international and non limiting it to cooked options. I would like to use the course as an outreach program to bring and teach others this transforming method of eating nautral foods.
We have several members who have cancer and are using raw juices as a adjuct to and rejuvement to ongoing cancer treatments. All of our work is volunteer. We share our complex site with a local food bank and next door is an autsim center.We have a small demostration garden in the rear of the property.
I feel this course could be shared with the ideals of the Camarillo Fellowship to allow for inspirtual,educational and healing experiences. We could help our neighbors and the community to relase and modify their SAD diets and lifestyles. As we share we grow. We win . We all win.
The raw food diet will help us achieve the life we have always wanted. A life of truth,beauty and virtue. Eating food in God’s intended way. Harming the earth less. Living a life of purpose . To attach supportive people. To be a welcoming place of respute,health and healing. To add to the critical mass needed to transform the planet to paradsie on earth here and now. It begins with one step,one win,one raw juice in one small center in a small way all can change. Help us begin.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
ok, check for spelling
April 28th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I would like to win the course for several reasons. One I have a mother who is diabetic and has been for over 15 years and I would like to see this condition reversed. After researching the raw food lifestyle I am 100% convinced that helping her transition to this lifestyle will reverse this illness, help her lose weight and live a much fuller life. I am also concerned about becoming a diabetic myself being that my weight is not where it should be. Another reason I would also like to win this course because I myself would like to live a healthier life. I am 38 years of age and am not happy with my current weight. I am always tired, have no energy and have suffered with ovarian cyst for over 7 years which is very painful. I have had 4 operations to have them removed but after a year or so they keep returning. I have tried living the raw food life but have run into snags and I really feel in my heart that this is the lifestyle that God has intended us to live. If I could get a better understanding of this life style I believe that I can help others become healthier and not depend on medications that only cover the problem and not help it.
God Bless
April 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I would love to have the home study course for not just myself, but for my family and friends!!! I have turned to raw foods simply for health reasons. I am already in good health, but want the BEST health possible. I discovered the raw food lifestyle through searching the internet for sites on vegetarianism. I ‘ve been swithcing over to raw foods for the last 8 months or so.
My husband thinks I’m a bit “wierd” for doing this. I wanted a juicer and found one for free on freecycle. I did several days of juice feasting and he thought I was, and I quote “on the outer fringe”. He doesn’t like me spending much money on the “raw way” of life. I print off recipes from the internet alot.
I’ve checked out the home study program quite a few times but know I can’t purchase one or my husband would be very angry. I really want to learn more!!!
I would love to win this study so my husband would perhaps check it out. He could lose a good bit of weight and he has a heart arrhythmia problem I think could be helped if he could see raw food has real medical research to back it up, as well a actual people healing themselves.
I am an RN, but haven’t worked for 15 years. I would like to go back to work soon, but our youngest daughter has some psychiatirc issues that has needed most of my attention. I would love to help her out through the raw lifestyle!! But I would also like to get some further education in this area, and then go on to use my nursing background in a career related to the raw way of living.
Thanks for even giving me the opportunity to win this wonderful gift. But thanks even if I don’t win this, as I have won through the many other free things you have given out in the past. Lynn
April 28th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Ok, now that I have stopped dwelling in the past so much let me tell you about the future.
I am on meds for my depression and the only good thing I can really say about them is that they stop you from feeling so deeply, but truth be known this is also one of the worse things about them as well.
I can’t wait to be so healthy I am off them for good.
After 7 years my husband and I have started at least talking. He still suffers from severe paranoia, but at least we talk. And yes we are still married and I am willing to wait (most days)
I discovered long ago that I have a talent for healing with lymphology and herbs and I chose to make the choices that I have made. Which is possibly why I am having such a hard time getting back to where I should be healthwise.
I had a dream the other day and in it I was asked if I only had 6 months to live, what would I want to do with it.
My one thought was that I wanted to go out into the wilderness or somewhere alone and commune with the nature and be guided by the spirit. Eat whatever the Lord provided and heal. Unfortunately I also realized that I couldn’t take off by myself because I have children that I am responsible for.
(You know it is a very strong desire in your life if you even dream about it.)
But let me tell you that when I woke up and saw the weeds growing in my yard, I was not thinking “there is another thing I need to do that I don’t have time for” I was thinking “those look good enough to eat!” which is exactly what I plan to do. I may not be able to afford to buy programs to instruct me and I may have next to no money for food, but I do have a Father to guide me.
When I got on and checked my mail at school today I thought “oh cool that would help” but I will be honest and say that I am not worried about it because my Father has never let my children go without something to eat or some sort of roof over our heads and I am most grateful.
A long time ago I was the one everyone went to when they had questions on their health. Eventually I would like to be there again.
I may have high blood pressure and arthritis, and be hypoglycemic. I may have financial hassles out the ying-yang, but that will not stop me because I know that I have a purpose in this life to help myself, my children, their children, and all others I can to find themselves and realize that we are all a family, and families stick together.
School gets out on Thursday for me and I plan on doing a cleans to get rid of this depression once and for all. I don’t know how but I know it will work. I have never been raw but I know that it will be an awesome experience so if you wouldn’t mind folks pray that my yard will just be full of edible weeds for me.
Thanks
&
God Bless
DonnaC
April 28th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hi,
I just got back from the doctors with my 78 year old mother. She has a number of degenative illnesses and every time we go to the doctors he/she adds another medicine.
She’s talking 13 different pills and she wants to decrease the list. She has agreeed on starting a new lifestyle following Ann Wigmores teaching. She is going to come to stay with me and is willing to try the RAW/wheatgrass lifestyle for two weeks. I know if she sticks to it you will be able to see results in two weeks and we can start to drop some of her medicines. If I had the home study progam, I’m sure I would be able to guide her through this process more successfully.
I realize my story isn’t as dramatic as some here, but we all want better health and my goal is to help my mother live longer so she can enjoy her grandchildren.
I don’t know how you will pick from these amazing stories. I wish you the best and I hope for the best.
Thanks so much, Sue
April 28th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
wow.
I’ve read through the entries, and I’m blown away by the difficult struggles most of the folks here go through.
I’m from Singapore, where the raw food movement is really in its infancy… yet, there’s something that’s telling me that this is the answer for me. You see, food IS evokes emotions in me. I love my food and yet, I know eating the way I do is so wrong for me.
About 6 months ago, all I was eating was salads salads salads. Whatever dressing I was using, the taste was the same… I got depressed and gave up.
Lately, I’ve literally gotten a taste of what eating raw could mean for me… my taste buds were blown away. I am overweight, have high blood pressure and diabetes. I have 2 lovely children who are slim and my daughter loves eating fruit and does not seem to like cooked food.
I want to help myself, I want to help my kids, and I want to help spread the message in Singapore. It would be great if I could learn how to do it.
Thanks Jim… for this! It’s a wonderful thing you’re doing!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I love what you are doing and am so grateful that people like you are so generously giving your time and effort to spread the message of raw!
I would love to win this course. Raw food has transformed me so very much since starting last January. I had no health issues to speak of, but my entire outlook on life and my connection to the world has increased so dramatically, and I know this is completely due to raw. My own ego, which has caused me so much pain, held me back from being all that I could and caused problems which I’ve used cooked food to avoid - is now quelled and I feel so much more relaxed and at ease and HAPPY with myself! I want everyone to understand how important what we put into our bodies is to our entire outlook on life! And for this reason I would love to win the course - to even better understand raw food and to be able to share this with everyone I know!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Hi Jim,
thanks for this great chance to win the Dr Anne Wigmore’s Home Study Guide V2.0,
I feel that I should win the course as I beleive I can make a better difference to myself and those around me by being a shinning example of a raw fooder. I am totally new to raw food and discovered your website from your interviews on Dr steve’s podcast. After researchiing the topic further, I soon realised this natural way to living life was common sense and the way we were designed to eat. I live in France and starting to be a raw fooder, people think you’ve gone mad. I going to prove them wrong through my example. I believe a raw food diet will help me overcome my dependence on processed foods, provide me with more energy, clear up my constant cough and sinuses and keep me going for a very long time to come.
Thanks again
Alex
April 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I believe I should win this course because I want to educate as many people as I can about eating raw food. I feel that educating many people would make more sense than just educating one person. I am a certified fitness trainer and would love to add raw food nutrition to my list of things I can teach. I am a co-host to our local raw food potlucks, which is filmed and aired on public access television. I could use the course to give me the knowledge to educate people about raw food in a very informative manner.
I know that eating a variety of raw, living plant based foods will keep me healthy, vibrant and strong. Raw food gives my body all of the nutrients it needs, without the need for any animal based and/or cooked foods.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Hi Jim
I know I would follow through with the course and be a living example of what a difference raw food can make in a persons life. I’m committed and dedicated to what I believe in. I’ve been called to go raw for years now and have up to 80% raw in summer.
With my weight issues and allergies I know raw will make a change in my life. Then we can all learn from my experiment on myself. Plus I’m eager to really get into something and when I do, I go full out.
Enjoy the decision making process and thanks for your generosity, warmly from Milli Byron Bay, Australia
April 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
i would share the video at the wheatgrass plant in akron ohio where there is now a yoga studio, meditation rooms, pilates classes, a sweat lodge, spiritual cinema, etc. i know that the raw food diet really works as demonstrated when i attended the creative health institute in hodunk. truth be told i am not living the lifestyle at present & would love to have the refresher course. thank you jimbo
April 28th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
i would share the information with the folks at the wheatgrass plant in akron ohio. i need the refresher course as i am not on the program & it shows. i know it works because i attended the 2-week course in hodunk michigan & never felt better in my life. thank you for your consideration jimbo! lauretta
April 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Jim,
Thanks for having this contest! It’s fun and great marketing! I didn’t see this until late this afternoon and there are so many great stories from well deserving people. Story upon story of real life situations with some that are very desperate and deeply sincere. The Raw Food lifestyle and Ann Wigmore’s philosophy on better health is absolutely taking off and more people are learning how to achieve great results. I have lost nearly 48 lbs as of today from this time last year. This was a gradual change that started to incorporate solid gains and helped prove that this system really works. My wife, as well, had gone thru the ringers this past couple years with her health. No doctor was able to diagnose her and help her. It wasn’t until we totally took her off the meds and rebuilt her system that we saw improvements. Today she is almost completely better and we owe it to a mature and intelligent way of living. I consider us still new to all of this but we will not be turning back. If I win this wonderful course I will not only use it for myself and family, but to help other people , just like you Jim.
Blessings!
Mark
April 28th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Hello Jimbo :)
You are doing a wonderful thing here ! I have read over many of the comments for entry for the free home study course. It must be hard to decide who will be the winner. Will you be letting us know who will win, and what the entry was that made you decide to choose them ?
Many blessings to you as you bless others.Thanks Jim for putting together the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course.
( not an entry….just a comment )
Thanks for all you do.
Bonnie
April 29th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Just because I live in Brasil, and have little chance to get one here.
All the Best
Anyway,I still can live a good alive life
April 29th, 2008 at 12:25 am
After reading many of the other responses, I’m certain that others have more of a need for the program than I do. I have been growing wheatgrass daily for over ten years and started dabbling in raw foods several years ago. I have not been consistent but I have experienced the amazing benefits, especially when I’ve maintained a strict raw diet for at least 30 days. Weight loss, heightened energy, clarity of thought, spiritual reawakening, and an increase level of joy are just some of the direct results. Raw food nutrition is my passion and I believe it can solve many of the world’s problems. Simply writing this down has been tremendously beneficial for me. Thank you as I believe I’ve already won something far greater than the course!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Hi, My name is Amanda, and I am about 6 years into my career as a music therapist. I work with people of all ages who have all kinds of special needs. I love what I do. I lead a fairly healthy vegetarian lifestyle, and strive to eat raw. I’m still learning how to plan my time around blending, washing, getting to work on time, preparing dinner, etc. I’m getting better (meaning raw”er”)!
What I’d really like to get out of this course is a better understanding of the way uncooked foods fuel our body and make it run they way it was intended to run.
I have started to notice what my clients eat. They are basically fed the foods/beverages/snacks/etc based on what they will actually put in their mouths, meaning “what-they-have-conditioned-their-caregivers-to-feed-them-to-avoid-temper-tantrums”(Chips, cookies, crackers, jellos, puddings, sugary juices, milk, deli meats, white bread, etc, etc, etc). I completely understand that most parents/caretakers do this out of desperation to see their children/clients eat something with some sort of caloric intake.
I go home almost everyday thinking the same thing. “How would my clients be functioning if they got a green smoothie for breakfast everyday, instead of processed meats, eggs, milk, and a bit of applesauce?” My clients are VERY impaired, and many VERY overweight.
I can’t walk into my work and change my clients everday eating habits, but I do have the opportunity to reach out to families and give them information.
I dream about owning a facility someday, where families (special needs or not)can come and learn about (real) nutrition and health. I imagine food prep classes for teenagers who have lived on school lunches and fast food. Parent classes to learn how to make baby food, and learn strategies to get their young ones to eat fruits and veggies. I’d like to assist people in realizing their potential by learning how to fuel their bodies and brains with what they need. That is what I am doing for myself, so why not pass on what works?!?
I guess, ultimately, I’d like to win the course to help me on my journey to realizing my potential. The more information I obtain and apply to my life, the more capable I am to pass it on.
Thanks!! - Amanda
April 29th, 2008 at 12:34 am
G’day!! I live in SOUTH AUSTRALIA where it is very difficult to find the resources for a raw diet lifestyle you have in the U.S.A -in fact so far I have only found 1 person living this way in this city. I am really strugggling to find helpful information as to how to go about the whole process as I live a very busy life. to top it all off I am a novice with computers -this is my first comment (and i had to listen to the instructions how to go about it!!) I REALLY need some guidance and would love your home study course. If I could really get going on this I have many friends and associates that I know I could inspire. PLEASE HELP!!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Man, I knew the Raw Food Lifestyle changed lives, but hearing and seeing everyone’s amazing stories come to life RIGHT HERE on the chidiet blog gives me goose bumps!
I’m truly speechless!
For all that posted a comment, you give courage and hope to eveyone watching and reading along.
Humbled By Your Words,
- Jim
April 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Hi Jim-
This would just be the most helpful tool to help me on my journey- 10yrs ago I was told I had MS and all through these ten yrs Ive been fighting feeling like it wasnt possible. On my quest Ive been on major western drugs that were to help but I always had reactions and had to stop…. A few yrs ago I heard about” Raw ” I did feel very good and I havent been able to stick with it. The judgements and pressure were impossible trying to prove my feelings.
When I was young I remembered I hasd a mark on my leg that was a circle and dot ( Bulls eye) LYME …
Notbeing treated for 15 years could be the reason for MS- I felt it. I looked through medical reacords and each test,diffrent doctors never gave me further testing after my tests show positive lyme band results.
Im sure you know or understand how angry i am and Im going full force ahead to take my health in my hands .
Your kindness and generousity is just something that can help on my journey!
Thank you and Have a blessed day!
Nicole
April 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
My name is Sharon Wiginton. I have been eating an 85% raw food diet for over 4 years. I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in Feb. of 2004. I knew right away that I did not want to do the traditional medical treatment. I went to a doctor who specializes in nutrition and he taught me the reason our body gets sick is because of nutritional deficiencies. I began juicing and eating raw foods and was cancer free within 3 months. I spend much time learning all I can about nutrition and health and would love to learn from Anne’s course.
Thank you,
Sharon Wiginton
April 29th, 2008 at 1:04 am
G’DAY!!! I live in SOUTH AUSTRALIA and am desperately trying to know where to start to live a raw/living food lifestyle. I am so envious of all the marvellous resources you have in the U.S.A, eg hands on (un)cooking weekend seminars etc -there is no such thing here. I am a registered nurse, live a very busy life and want guidance on how to start without spending days wading through all the information on the web (and i’m a novice computer user!!) PLEASE HELP. sincerely
Colleen
April 29th, 2008 at 1:08 am
To answer your question “Why you feel that you should win the course” I have only one answer and that is PURELY PASSION, passion for raw and living foods. Since I visited The Hippocrates Institute in July of 2004, I have been in love with the raw and living foods diet. Words cannot express the euphoric feeling one gets when on a diet of purely organic, raw and living foods. You can only experience the feeling. Since visiting the Hippocrates Institute, I have attended many workshops and seminars in the Toronto area. One of my goals is to learn all I can about raw and living foods so that I can share my knowledge with others. I feel that part of my mission is to educate and empower others towards a healthier lifestyle. What an honor it would be to be able to increase my knowledge even further with this home study course. It would be with great pleasure to accept this complimentary course.
Why do I feel that the raw food diet will help me achieve greater health? The raw food diet brings harmony to the body through the use of fresh, raw and living foods that nourish, cleanse, and alkalinize the body. It will further increases my energy, vitality and make me feel better than ever. It will clean my body of accumulated toxins and wastes. My body will obtain the highest concentration of vitamin, minerals and nutrients from the best food source there is. It will maintain my body’s cellular physiology operating at its optimum nutritional and functional efficiency and lastly, it will keep me trim and fit and all my organs happy.
With love and gratitude,
Mary
April 29th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I have been doing research and study about health since 2003, progress was very slow until recently i found out about raw food lifestyle. I took a course locally (Malaysia) but it doesn’t answer all my doubts and questions that I have. Family and friends never heard of raw food diet and strongly object to my change. I need sth strong to prove them wrong and to convince them this is the best diet on earth. I searched through the internet for courses, but all the resources are in the US and so out of my budget.
Since I tried to eat more raw food, my health starting to show more problem, I have more obvious irritable bowel syndrome, constant headache, feel cold easily, problematic indigestion, acne breakout etc. I’m pretty convinced that this is the transition that I must overcome, but things are not progressing well and my family is losing their confidence and forcing me to return to the cook meal. I really hope that courses from someone famous like Dr Ann might give my family confidence and let me go through the transition and get well soon.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Wow! Where to begin?! Why would I love to win your Dr. Ann W