you eat a cow to get protein. The cow eats grass to get it's protein. hmmm

Where do you think the gorilla, the rhino, the hippo, the elephant, the giraffe or any number of fellow mammals get their protein?  They are as big, or bigger than you, stronger and are very, very muscular without any excess fat, diabetes, high blood pressure or cancer.  They most certainly do not eat other mammals!  second hand protein (from green leafy vegetables) Which the mammals all eat.  You eat them to get their protein???  second hand vegetables are about as good as second hand smoke.

I choose to keep my diet 95-99% raw.  Thats a choice.  I have none of the diseases that every member of my family has and have died from.  So, they all have INHERITED IT and I did not?  no, I dont eat what they eat and I dont get what they got.  simple as that..I am not obese because I choose to eat in line with what human/mammals eat - vegetation. 


My motto has become this:
TO THOSE THAT UNDERSTAND NO EXPLANATION IS NECESSARY.  FOR THOSE THAT REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND NO EXPLANATION IS SUFFICIENT.

So, to provide you some REAL knowledge here are the parts that make sense.  Just because you have believed it for a long time does not make it right.  Just because I know something as a truth and you do not does not make it wrong.  We are where we are and live how we live in spite of our collective ignorance, stupidity or stubbornness.  READ ON MY PEOPLE!! 

Vegetable protein, oft maligned as "incomplete" is a a vital part of nutrition. It is also the only type of protein the body needs to build muscle and carry out many other functions.So much misinformation about protein needs is floating around that it's hard to figure out what to do. If you're interested in the healthiest way to get enough protein, keep reading.

What Protein Does

Vegetable protein, or any kind of protein, is used by the body for enzymes, structural tissue, hormones, and transplant molecules. Protein wears out relatively quickly and must be replaced, and the source of those replacement proteins is our food. After being digested, proteins give us a new supply of amino acids from which the body continuously rebuilds itself.

How Much Protein Do We Need?

Around 10 percent of calories from protein is the figure you most commonly hear listed by health organizations as optimal. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) on food packages also lists protein requirements at 10 percent. Americans, however, average around 15-16 percent of calories from protein.So what's a good amount? According to respected nutrition researcher Professor T. Colin Campbell, "...Only 5-6 percent of dietary protein is required to replace the protein regularly excreted by the body (as amino acids). About 9-10 percent protein, however, is the amount that has been recommended for the past fifty years...The relatively few people consuming more than 21 percent protein mostly are those who "pump iron," recently joined by those on high protein diets." (1) This makes a lot of sense if you stop to think about it. The greatest period of growth that the human body goes through is just after birth, and yet the sole food during this period is mothers milk, which happens to have six percent of its calories from protein.  (As do all mammals -the female feeds the young the mothers milk until the young are weaned and able to eat the designated diet of the (mammal) species which is vegetable based.)  no mammal drinks the milk of another mammal EXCEPT HUMANS.  only because the dairy association tells you to.

Protein does not start having a detrimental effect on health until it rises above 10 percent of calories, so you should view that as a safe maximum.

What About Protein Deficiency?

If you're eating fruits and vegetables and getting enough calories, protein deficiency is virtually an impossibility. In developed countries, protein deficiency is unknown. In cases of starvation, the body will start digesting muscle for energy, but this can be corrected by simply feeding a person simple vegetable matter, with will supply enoughvegetable protein for all of the body's needs.

More Protein For Muscles?

Body builders and those interested in putting on more muscle often eat protein far in advance of what is considered optimal. The question is whether all those whey protein shakes do them any good. No scientific study has ever shown the consumption of protein beyond 10 percent of calories to have any affect whatsoever on muscle growth. That's because no food will ever "build muscle." According to athletic trainer Dr. Douglas Graham, "In reality only weight-bearing exercise builds muscle. When insufficient carbohydrates are supplied, it is true that protein requirements go up, as the body transforms the protein into carbohydrate (an energy-expensive process) and utilizes it for fuel. This does not, however bring about the result (body builders) desire." (2)

So what is happening to all that protein? What the body can't use it stores as fat, meaning those protein shakes are layering fat on top of the muscle weightlifters are trying to accentuate.

So should you be supplementing your protein intake? Besides making you fat, excess protein puts acidifies the body and brings on various diseases, as mentioned below. No body builder should supplement.
Check out Charlie Abel, a raw body builder who does not supplement and uses only raw vegetable protein, for more info.

What Type of Protein

An interesting argument over vegetable protein, (aka plant protein, or protein found in fruits and vegetables) has raged for years. Some say that it's incomplete. Here's what they mean:There are nine essential amino acids. Those nine cannot be synthesized by the body, and so must be taken in through what we eat. No one fruit or vegetable contains all nine, though protein taken from animals does. However protein taken from animals also do not contain any enzymes therefore cause it to simply rot in the intestines thereby allowing re absorption of the toxic rotting meat in the colon.  Therefore, some have concluded that vegetable protein doesn't meet the body's requirements for protein, and that animal protein is necessary.
This is something that was dismissed by nutrition experts years ago. The author of the 1970s-era "incomplete protein theory," Frances Moore Lappe, admitted in the 1990s that she had been completely mistaken in her assertion that combining protein is necessary. We now know that while we need to get all of those nine amino acids, we don't need to get them together, or even in the same day.  (the truth is that when you dont know any better you do what you do.  Once you know better you ought to change to reflect the new information learned.)
So where can we get protein? All plant matter contains protein. By eating a variety, we meet out needs.
Protein Comparison:
Bananas- 4 percent
Cucumbers- 11 percent
Oranges- 7 percent
Green Leaf Lettuce- 22 percent
Watermelon- 7 percent
Eggs- 37 percent
Whole Milk - 23 percent
Beef - 50 percent.

No one questions the speed and strength of a monkey, or the overwhelming force of a charging Rhino, but people can't imagine muscle building from fruits and vegetables. These creatures eat only raw fruits and vegetables, and it has served them well.

Vegetable Protein Better Than Animal Protein?

But if you can get all of your amino acids from animal protein, and have to worry about variety for vegetables, why shouldn't you go with animal protein?The protein found in other animals is very similar to our protein needs because they mostly have the right amount of each amino acid. They can be synthesized very efficiently by our bodies. However, efficiency isn't best, in this case.
According to Dr. Campbell, "The concept of quality really means the efficiency with which food proteins are used to promote growth. This would be well and good if the greatest efficiency equaled the greatest health, but it doesn't and that's why the terms efficiency and quality are misleading. In fact...there is a mountain of compelling research showing that "even low-quality plant protein, which allows for slow but steady synthesis of new proteins, is the healthiest type of protein...Plant proteins may be lacking in one or more of the essential amino acids, as a group they do contain all of them." (3)
The problem with animal protein is that it's a known carcinogen. In studies, rats exposed to carcinogens and then fed a diet of whey protein developed cancers and died quickly. "So the next logical question was whether plant protein, tested in the same way, has the same effect on cancer promotion as casein," writes Campbell. "The answer is an astonishing No. In these experiments the plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at higher levels of intake.".(4)
Vegetable protein does not cause cancer, unlike animal protein, and so should be the source of all your protein requirements.
Animal protein is also far to high in fat and cholesterol for optimum nutrition. Eggs are 60 percent fat, as is ground beef. Cheddar cheese is 72 percent fat.
Extra protein is also extremely acidifying for the body, which must strip calcium from the bones to counteract the acid. Above 10 percent of calories from animal protein, autoimmune disease, cancer, and impaired liver and kidney function are often the result, according to the China Study.

Vegetable Protein For Health and Fitness

If you eat meals of just raw fruits and vegetables, as is being suggested on a healthy raw food diet, then you'll likely average about 5 percent of calories from protein.If you add a small quantity of nuts and seeds. this will boost your number a percentage point or two, but you'll still be safely within the limits of 10 percent of calories from protein, and won't need to fear the many debilitating diseases that an excess can bring on.

Protein? how much and where does it come from

The body for optimal health only requires 10% protein.  the point is that it does not need to get that all in one day or in one sitting.  Most people in developed countries are gluttonous and eat far too much protein which in turn becomes fat and gets plastered all around their bodies...

This list shows weight in grams/the measurement by size and the amount by measure.  Cooked food might have a lot of protein but all of the enzymes and trace elements have been dissipated/stripped away and is essentially dead food.

Description	Weight (g)	Measure	Content per Measure (g)
Alfalfa seeds, sprouted, raw	33	1 cup	1.32
Artichokes, (globe or French), cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	120	1 medium	4.18
Asparagus, canned, drained solids	72	4 spears	1.54
Asparagus, cooked, boiled, drained	60	4 spears	1.55
Asparagus, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	5.31
Avocados, raw, California	28.35	1 oz	0.60
Avocados, raw, Florida	28.35	1 oz	0.45
Beans, baked, canned, plain or vegetarian	254	1 cup	12.17
Beans, baked, canned, with pork and tomato sauce	253	1 cup	13.05
Beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	172	1 cup	15.24
Beans, Cowpeas (Blackeyed), immature seeds,  boiled, without salt	165	1 cup	5.23
Beans, Cowpeas (blackeyed), immature seeds, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	170	1 cup	14.43
Beans, Cowpeas, common (blackeyes, crowder, southern), mature seeds,	172	1 cup	13.30
Beans, Kidney beans, red, mature seeds, canned	256	1 cup	13.44
Beans, Kidney beans, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	177	1 cup	15.35
Beans, Lima beans, large, mature seeds, canned	241	1 cup	11.88
Beans, Lima beans, large, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	188	1 cup	14.66
Beans, Mung beans, mature seeds, sprouted, cooked, boiled,  without salt	124	1 cup	2.52
Beans, Mung beans, mature seeds, sprouted, raw	104	1 cup	3.16
Beans, Navy beans, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	182	1 cup	15.83
Beans, Pinto beans, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	171	1 cup	14.04
Soybeans, mature cooked, boiled, without salt	180	1 cup	22.23
Beans, Snap beans, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids	135	1 cup	1.55
Beans, Snap beans, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	125	1 cup	2.36
Beans, White beans, mature seeds, canned	262	1 cup	19.02
Beet greens, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	144	1 cup	3.70
Beets, canned, drained solids	170	1 cup	1.55
Broccoli, raw	88	1 cup	2.62
Broccoli, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	4.65
Beets, cooked, boiled, drained	170	1 cup	2.86
Beets, cooked, boiled, drained	50	1 beet	0.84
Cabbage, Chinese (pak-choi), cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	170	1 cup	2.65
Cabbage, Chinese (pe-tsai), cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	119	1 cup	1.79
Cabbage, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	150	1 cup	1.53
Cabbage, raw	70	1 cup	1.01
Cabbage, red, raw	70	1 cup	0.97
Carrots, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	1.70
Carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	146	1 cup	1.74
Carrots, raw	110	1 cup	1.13
Cauliflower, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	124	1 cup	2.28
Cauliflower, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	2.90
Cauliflower, raw	100	1 cup	1.98
Celery, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	150	1 cup	1.25
Celery, raw	120	1 cup	0.90
Corn, sweet, white, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	77	1 ear	2.56
Corn, sweet, yellow, canned, vacuum pack, regular pack	210	1 cup	5.06
Corn, sweet, yellow, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	77	1 ear	2.56
Corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels cut off cob, boiled, drained, without salt	164	1 cup	4.51
Corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels on cob, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	63	1 ear	1.96
Cucumber, peeled, raw	119	1 cup	0.68
Cucumber, with peel, raw	104	1 cup	0.72
Dandelion greens, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	105	1 cup	2.10
Endive, raw	50	1 cup	0.63
Garlic, raw	3	1 clove	0.19
Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	198	1 cup	17.86
Lettuce, cos or romaine, raw	56	1 cup	0.91
Lettuce, iceberg (includes crisphead types), raw	55	1 cup	0.56
Lettuce, looseleaf, raw	56	1 cup	0.73
Mushrooms, canned, drained solids	156	1 cup	2.92
Mushrooms, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	3.39
Mushrooms, raw	70	1 cup	2.03
Mustard greens, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	140	1 cup	3.16
Okra, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	160	1 cup	2.99
Okra, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	184	1 cup	3.83
Olives, ripe, canned (small-extra large)	22	5 large	0.18
Onions, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	210	1 cup	2.86
Onions, dehydrated flakes	5	1 tbsp	0.45
Onions, raw	110	1 whole	1.28
Onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw	100	1 cup	1.83
Parsley, raw	10	10 sprigs	0.30
Parsnips, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	2.06
Peas, edible-podded, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	160	1 cup	5.23
Peas, edible-podded, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	160	1 cup	5.60
Peas, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids	170	1 cup	7.51
Peppers, hot chili, green, raw	45	1 pepper	0.90
Peppers, hot chili, red, raw	45	1 pepper	0.90
Peppers, sweet, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	136	1 cup	1.25
Peppers, sweet, green, raw	119	1 pepper	1.06
Peppers, sweet, red, raw	119	1 pepper	1.06
Potato, baked, flesh and skin, without salt	202	1 potato	5.05
Potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt	156	1 potato	3.06
Potatoes, boiled, cooked in skin, flesh, without salt	136	1 potato	2.54
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt	135	1 potato	2.31
Potatoes, hashed brown, home-prepared	156	1 cup	3.78
Pumpkin, canned, without salt	245	1 cup	2.70
Pumpkin, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	245	1 cup	1.76
Radishes, raw	4.5	1 radish	0.03
Spinach, canned, drained solids	214	1 cup	6.01
Spinach, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	5.35
Spinach, frozen, chopped or leaf, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	190	1 cup	5.97
Spinach, raw	30	1 cup	0.86
Squash, summer, all varieties, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	1.64
Squash, summer, all varieties, raw	113	1 cup	1.33
Squash, winter, all varieties, cooked, baked, without salt	205	1 cup	1.82
Squash, winter, butternut, frozen, cooked, boiled, without salt	240	1 cup	2.95
Sweet potato, canned, vacuum pack	255	1 cup	4.21
Sweet potato, cooked, baked in skin, without salt	146	1 potato	2.51
Sweet potato, cooked, boiled, without skin, without salt	156	1 potato	2.57
Tomatoes, red, ripe, canned, stewed	255	1 cup	2.42
Tomatoes, red, ripe, canned, whole, regular pack	240	1 cup	2.21
Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average	180	1 cup	1.53
Tomatoes, sun-dried	2	1 piece	0.28
Tomatoes, sun-dried, packed in oil, drained	3	1 piece	0.15
Watermelon, raw	286	1 wedge	1.77

Protein content of other High Protein Vegetarian Foods

Description	Weight (g)	Measure	Content per Measure (g)
Buckwheat flour, whole-groat	120	1 cup	15.14
Buckwheat groats, roasted, cooked	168	1 cup	5.68
Bulgur, cooked	182	1 cup	5.61
Bulgur, dry	138	1 cup	11.70
Cornmeal, degermed, enriched, yellow	140	1 cup	17.21
Cornmeal, whole-grain, yellow	122	1 cup	9.91
Noodles, chinese, chow mein	45	1 cup	3.77
Oat bran, cooked	219	1 cup	7.03
Oat bran, raw	94	1 cup	16.26
Peanut butter, smooth style, with salt	16	1 tbsp	4.03
Quinoa, cooked	-	1 cup	11
Rice, brown, long-grain, cooked	125	195	5.03
Rice, white, long-grain, regular, cooked	158	195	4.25
Spaghetti, cooked, enriched, without added salt	140	1 cup	6.68
Spaghetti, whole-wheat, cooked	140	1 cup	7.46
Tempeh	225	1 cup	31
Tofu, firm, prepared with calcium sulfate and magnesium chloride	81	1/4 block	6.51
Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached	125	1 cup	12.91
Wheat flour, whole-grain	125	1 cup	16.44
Wheat flour, white, bread, enriched	125	137	16.41
Whole wheat bread	2 slices	2 slices	5
Veggie burger	1 patty	1 patty	5-24

Source: USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 15
From the above table you can chose foods high in protein. Notice that there are many food choices that are high in protein such as beans, soybean, wheat flour and oat bran.

Things I was just thinking about

Do better today than you did yesterday~

Remove one more item from your death arsenal of non foods~

Add two more LIVE foods~

Drink clean/pure water (who are we joking, where is it?)  Drink distilled water~

Be kind to yourself while you make subtle changes~

Live live today because live food gives life~

Eat, Drink and be Merry on a RAW FOOD LIFESTYLE, for tomorrow we may not be diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes or attention deficit~

Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do to SAVE YOUR OWN DAMN LIFE!

Oh, and watch this clip.  It's cheesy a bit but the info is ON POINT

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When you Juice ~ your body gets JUICED!!

FAT BURNING FOODS - JUICES


AsparagusAsparagus contains the chemical asparagine. This is an alkaloid that stimulates the kidneys and improves the circulatory process. These alkaloids directly affect the cells and break down fat. It also contains a chemical that helps to remove waste from the body by breaking up the oxalic acid; this acid tends to glue fat to cells, and so by breaking the acid up, it helps to reduce fat levels.

Beets
Beets are a strong diuretic that focuses on the liver and kidneys. Beets flush out floating body fats. They have a special iron that cleanses the corpuscles, corpuscles are blood cells that can contain fat deposits.
It also contains a chlorine that also helps to flush out fatty deposits. This chlorine stimulates the lymph which will clear out the fat deposits.
 Brussel Spouts
 This vegetable stimulates the glands, the pancreas especially, which releases hormones the has a cleansing effect on the cells. There are also minerals that stimulate the kidneys. Waste is released quicker and it helps to clean out the cells.
 Cabbage This cleanses your body of waste matter because it contains sulphur and iodine, which helps to cleanse the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines. Cabbage is a great food if you should have a pot belly or a middle age spread. The diuretic cabbage will help to break up the fat in this area.

Carrots Carrots contains carotene, a form of Vitamin A, this carotene will start a fat flushing reaction in your system. This reaction will literally wash out fat and waste quickly. The carotene will be transformed into vitamin A in the intestines and this process will create a speed up in your metabolism and cause a reaction in your cells to remove fat deposits.

Celery
 Raw celery has a high concentration of Calcium in a ready to use form, so when you eat it, the calcium is sent directly to work. This pure form of calcium will ignite your endocrine system. The hormones in your body will break up the accumulated fat build up. Celery also has a high level of magnesium and iron which will clean out your system.

Cucumber
 Cucumber contains a high sulphur and silcon content. These minerals work to stimulate the kidneys to wash out uric acid, which is a waste product. With this uric acid being washed out, it stimulates the removal of fat, and loosens the fat from the cells.

Garlic It is also a natural diuretic. Garlic has mustard oils and these oils create a cleansing action in the body. They promote a vigorous action of peristalsis, which is muscular contraction, and this will loosen fat and help wash out fats. They can also breakdown clumps of fat. So eat garlic and thin down.

Horseradish
We've all seen horseradish, few venture to use it, but it has an amazing effect of dissolving fat in cells (no side effects) and also as a cleansing effect on the body.

Lettuce
Lettuce contains iron and magnesium. These minerals will enter your spleen, your spleen helps your immunity and protects the body from illness. The spleen will use these minerals make them stronger, and send them to the cells and tissues. It will also help the liver, increase your metabolism, and wash out fatty cells. The darker lettuces have more of the minerals. So add Lettuce to your diet NOW!

Onions
Onions, similar to garlic, have minerals and oils that will help to breakdown fat deposits and speed up your metabolism. Have raw onions every day, it has more power than garlic and with the milder smell, it will make an excellent addition to your diet.

Radishes
Radishes scrub the mucous membrane of the body because it contains high levels of Iron and Magnesium. These minerals actually help to dissolve fat in the cells.

Tomatoes
Tomatoes have high Vitamin C and Citricmalic-oxalic acids. The acid will accelerate the metabolic process. It also helps the kidneys to release more water and helps to wash away fat.
The natural acids with the enzyme activated minerals prompt the kidneys to filter out large quantities of fatty deposits and then you eliminate them from your system. So add tomatoes to your daily diet and your metabolism will thank you for it.

Apple Cider Vinegar
 Use this diuretic in small quantities. You can add it to your salad as a dressing. What makes this such a powerful diuretic is this: It is made from apples and the malic acid in apples will create a fat burning process. Another factor with this vinegar is the fermentation process causes the vinegar to have constructive acids that join with alkaline elements and minerals in the body. This produces a cell scrubbing effect.  It also contains high levels of potassium, which has an antiseptic quality to that helps to eliminate fat deposits.

STUTTGART not so in the RAW! We can change this!

I've been here a little over a year and how the time has flown by.  I named this blog "Raw While Serving Overseas because I just want to encourage people to do better when they have the opportunity and to show that although it is not EASY to be raw in a meat eating military community, it's not impossible either.  The key is simply, simplify, simplify, simplify.  Make simple dietary lifestyle choices. 

Plan ahead and whatever you do - do not rely on the profit necessity of fast (non) food to dictate to you your health and wellness.  You can live well and eat live food.  You can be SuperCharged while REVERSING DIABETES in 30 days.  LOL  Those are the title of two movies that I have watched a few times and it still amazes me that people all over military communities are still taking insulin shots as though there is NOTHING BETTER! The participants in the film did JUST THAT and much more. 


The amazingly powerful transformations that happen in other areas of your life are unexplainable to those that do not understand, and impossible to those that will not understand!

It still brings a chuckle to my throat when a addicted smoker with that smell lingering all around them and bad skin and unhealthy children says to me (in that scratchy smokers voice) "Wha, what in the world are you drinking??  That it cannot possibly be healthy to drink distilled water.  "What do you wanna do...kill yourself with all this non scientific new age stuff?" (long drag on cigarette then 2 minutes of coughing)

on a different day ~

(with a cigarette between the fingers unlit)  What??!!! You're fasting!!??? Like, not eating??!!!  WTH!!??  That can NOT BE SAFE!  What are you bulimic or something.  You could go see somebody in MFLC about that because it just cannot be good for your body at all..Their 2 year old twins just got tubes in their ears for the second time.  (using bronchial inhaler (shoot-shoot) - coughing up phlegm and a little blood (looks like) spitting and cussing about it ~ then lighting and taking a drag or 2 off the cigarette again).


Yes, this happens more often than I can say.



If there was a way I could get the Combined commands in the Stuttgart Military Community to take notice and make a difference.  I'd let them know sustainable energy and saving a million dollars here and there on recycling and energy conservation is good and all but they ARE KILLING US, our families and our children with the fast (barely food) that we are forced to face daily.  They give us no options other than fat, more fat and less food quality.  And I'm sorry eating a Sandwich and just leaving the meat off is not a viable solution..nor is a salad bar with a dressing that is 37% fat and added unpronounceable things that GOK - (god only knows).


My truth is - as for others on the path to life ~ unfortunately If I don't make it myself, I can't eat it most times.  My government and it's support organizations do not feed me in the FOOD COURT, cannot offer me sustenance in the base or post clubs/restaurants nor offer me dietary refuge in the fun and family centers,(bowling alley, theaters and so on).  Eating in the dining facilities is also truly next to impossible. When I do make a decision to have something out of my Raw, Vegetarian, Whole or Vegan family...It reminds me too well again that as I am pledged (sworn) to defend the Constitution of the United States...they have never pledged or sworn to do that or anything close to it for my nutritional health.  It's okay to die for your country in war and because of your countries contracting policies in their eating establishments?

I choose to self care.  I choose life.  I choose live food and I choose to live.  I don't want to be pasteurized, processed and denatured.  I want the options to have a dining facility that does not have all foods drowned in butter, milk based sauces, fried, battered and petrified.  I want it whole, fresh, and in a state as close to natural as possible.


I want REAL FOOD.  Not fake food by products.  If I could make a stand and initiate a difference I would like a Command wide proclamation...That we would have a DAY of RAW~wakening.

Where we could be the FIRST to change the food courts, dining facilities and school eating programs in such a way that it says to other military communities WORLDWIDE that you can have the best military in the world but if they are plagued with injuries, illness, sickness and disease.  What's the point?  Our militaries spend more money and time on the sick troops and do next to nothing to bolster (in deed) the WELLNESS of the well ones like me and others that NEVER get ill, never suffer overuse injuries, dont have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia or any number of things clearly documented and classified as LIFESTYLE disturbances in the body.  The types of things you get due to your lifestyle.  Your eating habit, your face hole filling pastime.


Let's R~awaken to a different way.  A day in the RAW!

My co-worker calls me the "Health Witch".  We laugh about it all the time and he asks for and STILL eats all the foods I prepare because they are REAL, FRESH, NUTRITIOUS, SUSTAINABLE, DELICIOUS, yet TANTALIZING to the taste buds, APPEALING to the eye and ENTICING to the nose.

So, check out the recipes on these blogs, get a HP blender and make your own baby food, make your own soups, your own ice cream without milk, cream, sugar or preservatives.  Blend up a fruit, veggie or fruit & veggie smoothie.  your children don't have to be sick, overweight or attention deficit.  Make them vibrant, nutrient rich and abundantly well with LIVE, RAW, WHOLE foods and snacks.

Yes, you can have chocolate, brownies, tacos, lasagne, ice dreams and more.  Life in the RAW is no longer out of your reach.

Make a choice, Make a change.

I am Chef Vee ~ I am RAWsome ~ and I am also.  .  .  The "HEALTH WITCH" OF AFRICOM!!   LOL

2 ~ 60 day challenges. this is so good I posted it TWICE!!

My Curious Foodies..Listen up!  If there was ever a time to get the ball rolling.  Today is the day and NOW is the time.  RECLAIM YOUR health and Vitality.  Reclaim your waistline.  Reclaim your destiny and power to CHOOSE. 

There are not a lot of things we have absolute control over.  One thing we do have control over is what we stick in the largest hole in our faces.  you can choose to live or you can choose a sickly and lifeless existence.  When you eat live food you enhance your life.  When you eat over processed and life less food (junk food) you have less life - you are what you eat!  Make a choice, make a change  I am Chef Vee. and I am RAWsome. Look at the site take the challenge and CHOOSE LIFE, choose live!

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Fruits - vegetables and human wellness

Table 1: Nutritive constituents of fruits and vegetables that have a positive impact on human health and their sources

CONSTITUENT	SOURCES	ESTABLISHED OR PROPOSED EFFECTS ON HUMAN-WELLNESS
VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID)	BROCCOLI, CABBAGE, CITRUS FRUITS, GUAVA, KIWIFRUIT, LEAFY GREENS, PEPPER, PINEAPPLE, POTATO, STRAWBERRY, TOMATO, WATERMELON	PREVENTS SCURVY, AIDS WOUND HEALING, HEALTHY IMMUNE- SYSTEM, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE
VITAMIN A (CAROTENOIDS)	DARK-GREEN VEGETABLES (SUCH AS SPINACH, AND TURNIP GREENS), ORANGE VEGETABLES (SUCH AS CARROTS, PUMPKIN, AND SWEET POTATO), ORANGE-FLESH FRUITS (SUCH AS APRICOT, , MANGO, ORANGE, PAPAYA, PEACH AND PINEAPPLE), TOMATO	NIGHT BLINDNESS PREVENTION, CHRONIC FATIGUE, PSORIASIS, HEART DISEASE, STROKE, CATARACTS
VITAMIN K	NUTS, LENTILS, GREEN ONIONS, CRUCIFERS (CABBAGE, BROCCOLI), LEAFY GREENS	SYNTHESIS OF PRO-COAGULANT FACTORS, OSTEOPOROSIS
VITAMIN E (TOCOPHEROLS)	NUTS (SUCH AS ALMONDS, CASHEW NUTS, , PISTACHIOS, PEANUTS, AND WALNUTS), CORN, DRY BEANS, LENTILS AND CHICKPEAS, DARK-GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES	HEART-DISEASE, LDL-OXIDATION, IMMUNE-SYSTEM, DIABETES, CANCER
FIBER	MOST FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, NUTS, COOKED DRY BEANS AND PEAS	DIABETES, HEART DISEASE
FOLATE ( FOLIC ACID)	DARK-GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES (SUCH AS SPINACH, MUSTARD GREENS, BROCCOLI ), LEGUMES (COOKED DRY BEANS, LENTILS, CHICKPEAS AND GREEN PEAS), ASPARAGUS	BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCER HEART DISEASE, NERVOUS SYSTEM
CALCIUM	COOKED VEGETABLES (SUCH AS BEANS, TOMATOES) PEAS, PAPAYA, RAISINS, ORANGE, PUMPKIN, CAULIFLOWER	OSTEOPOROSIS, MUSCULAR/ SKELETAL, TEETH, BLOOD PRESSURE
MAGNESIUM	SPINACH, LENTILS, POTATO, BANANA, NUTS, CORN, CASHEWS	OSTEOPOROSIS, NERVOUS SYSTEM, TEETH, IMMUNE SYSTEM
POTASSIUM	BAKED POTATO OR SWEET POTATO, BANANA, COOKED DRY BEANS, COOKED GREENS, DRIED FRUITS (SUCH AS APRICOTS AND PRUNES).	HYPERTENSION (BLOOD PRESSURE) STROKE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

FREE Yummy Winter Pizza Recipe!

FREE Yummy Winter Pizza Recipe!

Here is the link.  Yes you'll see it takes A LOOOONNNGGG time for the dehydration process but,  the taste is worth it.  I'm thinking of this for the next class.  what cha think?

Oh and heres a smoothie recipe I picked up from www.rawfoodsonabudget.com too:
She says:
All week long, I have been enjoying this beautiful, delicious, winter-loving green smoothie! So, I made a video of me preparing the smoothie to share with the world!  (YOU ALL WOULD BE THE WORLD)
This green smoothie is perfect for individuals who are new to green smoothies and it is very kid-friendly. The smoothie is pretty sweet, so you can more greens if you like. In fact, you can comfortably put at least 1/2 lb of spinach in this smoothie! In the video, I used about 6-7 ounces of spinach, which is almost 1/2 lb; however,  I could have easily added 2-3 more cups! This recipe makes 1 quart of smoothie!
Substitutions

• Use chard or beet greens instead of spinach
• Use whole apple and grapefruit of instead of juicing
• Use dried prunes or currants instead of raisins

Enjoy!