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Are You Eating Too Much Fruit?

by Paul Nison,
Reprinted with the permission of the author.


Because eating too much fruit is very common, I am often asked, "What is too much fruit?" If you take in more sugar than you're going to burn, that is too much. If one does choose to eat a lot of fruit he/she should make sure to keep very active, but a person shouldn't keep active just because he wants to eat a lot of fruit.

In the first year of eating healthy with mostly raw foods, adding raw foods, including fruit, to your diet should be very easy and fun. A person could eat just about anything in any amount, and, chances are, will be doing much better than before starting to eat a healthy raw diet.
But as time goes on, we have to simplify our diets and also reduce the amounts. There is no doubt in my mind that leafy greens and non-sweet fruits are the best for our bodies. Sweet fruit is okay also, but if you eat too much it can be dangerous.

Something else to think about is the quality of what you are eating. The higher quality the food, the less we'll need because we'll be getting so many nutrients in the high quality foods. When eating lower quality foods we eat much more because we're not giving the body what it needs, so it craves more food.

Organic whole, ripe fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds are all that is needed for the body to thrive. Once people realize that, the next question is how much or how little is enough. The more the body has to work, the more stress it has. Stress equals disease! The more we eat, the more stress we will have.  Eat the high quality foods in small amounts and that will be enough, and will also help keep stress levels low.


Energy and Food:

At first we need to eat more food to hold back the toxins from coming out too fast. Once we are somewhat clean, we can eat less and do more. We get energy from food in one form, but with digestion, we use more energy than we take in, especially if we overeat, or eat very low quality foods.

Most people eat too much sugar, which can be the cause of many problems including addiction and disease.  A great book, "The pH Miracle," talks about this. This book has become one of the best selling books on our website: www.TheRawWorld.com. People who follow the low sugar, raw high quality food diets are getting great results.

I suggest everyone try a low sugar diet, and see how great it can work.



CHI wishes to express their sincere thanks to Paul Nison for allowing us to reprint this article. You can visit Paul's website at www.RawLife.com or hear him speak on August 7th at CHI. 

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Feedback from last week’s newsletter:

Hi Jim,

Thank you so much for the "Backsliding" inspiration.  I am finding that the same thing is happening in my life.  It's been a year since I spent 5 weeks at the Institute in Puerto Rico, and I am not 100% raw yet, but I don't have cravings for meat or dairy any more, and I am a lot healthier than I was.  It is a slow process, we just need to be patient with ourselves.

Thanks,

Ann Fuller

 

That's great James.   I'm going up to Alaska next week, and embarking on my raw diet again, as I have most definitely backslide into a ditch w/my diet!!!  

Thanks for the encouraging letter,

                                  ML,

                                      Lauri Bingaman

 

Thank you so much for your info on backsliding - I really needed that.  I am very new to raw foods and have only managed to stay 100% raw for one week - But I am managing to incorporate more raw foods than cooked foods. 

Thanks again

Marianna

 

-- So…. don’t feel alone if you identified with last week’s article. (reprinted with the express permission of the individuals)


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"Health, Beauty, Cleansing and Energy with Wheat Grass" - a wonderful article by E. Neumaier -
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Unexpected Benefits of Being Raw

by James Carey

I live out in the woods of east central Georgia. WAY out in the woods. My driveway is several city blocks long. You can’t even see the house from the road. Every summer I contract poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac at least a dozen times. Seventeen times, one year. Each case lasts about two weeks, unless I catch some more elsewhere on my body and have overlapping cases. I’ve found the Canadian Centre for Disease Control (CCDC) website has the most useful information, and I know all about urushiol and Technu and Clear Caladryl lotion. Did you know that one nanogram of urushiol (billionth of a gram) is enough to cause a rash, the name is derived from the Japanese name for laquer, dead plants can infect you even after five years, urushiol remains potent for several centuries, or that the name Poison Ivy was coined by Captain John Smith in 1609? I could go on…

I’m just careless about it, is all. I stop to admire the sunrise, then realize that the tree I’m leaning against is covered with PI vines. I go crawling under the house to fix something, and realize the next day that the pretty little plants I crawled over were poison oak. I go berry picking, and push right though the poison sumac to get to the blackberry bushes behind. I’ve even caught PI from the dog (the oil can be carried on their fur) and mowing the yard.

Invariably, two days later I start to itch, and when I backtrack my activities I find the cause of infection (the CCDC calls this “vectoring,” in case you were wondering.)

At least I never get PI on my feet or ankles. That’s because I always wear big, heavy boots around the farm. Of course, I’m constantly battling Athlete’s Foot. I wear two pair of white socks, change them at midday (dinner, not lunch), and have a collection of sprays, ointments and powders. I know almost as much about Athlete’s Foot fungus as I do about Poison Ivy.

It’s been different this summer, though. Here it is July already and the one case of PI I’ve had lasted only two days. And I haven’t had Athlete’s Foot since I left CHI last fall. Curious, no? I thought so, especially since spring came a month early and everything’s blooming even heartier than usual.

I mentioned this to Don Haughey and he said, “Oh, that’s because your body is more alkaline now.” I checked with a chemist at Georgia Southern University, and, sure enough, that’s correct. An alkaline body chemistry repels skin diseases.

Like the local girls say, “Well, ain’t that special?”

James Carey, Herndon, Georgia


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Backslider’s Corner

For an excellent overview on the problems our bodies have with processing animal protein, and some transitional ideas on how to move from the standard American diet to a Vegan one, I highly recommend the video, “A Diet for All Reasons,” by Dr. Michael Klaper, MD.  Of course, Dr. Lorraine Day is still our favorite. <g> What I appreciated about Dr. Klaper’s video is that he sums up the reasons for the entire veg*n movement in 50 minutes. For me, it’s been a good reminder of why I’m striving to be 100% raw Vegan.   -- James

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Are you considering soy as an alternative to eating meat, or do you eat a lot of soy protein now?  If so, you should consider the information at:
www.CreativeHealthInstitute.us/problemswithsoy.htm

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