i need your help!!

July 2, 2003

Hi, DJ......the easiest things to sprout are lentil beans. Take a handful,

put them in a bowl, cover them with water and let them stand overnight. In

the morning, pour off the water leaving the beans wet. Let the beans sit

making sure they don't dry out. Just sprinkle them with more water as

needed and in two or three days they will sprout. By the third or fourth

day, they are ready to eat as is or in a salad. They're like little vitamin

pills in the sense that they will make you feel noticeably better. Another

good food to start with are kiwi fruits. They are the most nutrient dense

fruit there is. Have one every morning for breakfast. Because of their

high vitamin C content, they will keep your bowels regular plus they are

richer in potassium than bananas. Let us know how you're

doing.........Betsy

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" DJ Evans " <starskygirl

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:39 AM

[Raw Food] i need your help!!

> Hi, names DJ and I need your help! After much research an mega illness I

am going to switch my diet over to raw.

>

> The problem is that I dont know how to start out, how to stay on this,

what exactly to make other than taking food out of the fridge and eating

it...I know nothing about sprouting.

>

> I need all the help I can get so I am asking you knowledgable folks to

help guide me on my way here...please....

>

> I am 40 and feel 90. If I dont do something soon I may not live to see 45!

>

> Any tips, recipes, advice you have will surely help me!

>

> Thanks

> DJ

July 2, 2003

Hi, DJ. Sorry you're going through ill health. But going raw isn't as

difficult or as exotic as it might sound.

I would first suggest that you simply concentrate on, say, the easiest

meals.

Fred and I do the following and we're pretty new at this ourselves: a

cut-up orange, a sliced banana, a couple of sliced strawberries; a small

handful each of almonds, walnut pieces, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds.

That's our breakfast.

Then for lunch, we have a huge salad with lettuce, scallions, the same nuts

and seeds as with breakfast, sliced tomato, broccoli, and whatever else I

feel like putting in. Then I put on some olive oil and either vinegar or

lemon juice. And voila! Second meal accounted for.

So, breakfast and lunch are pretty easy.

We're not 100% raw. For dinner, we have a light stir-fry with rice. We

never overcook it and we never eat the leftovers.

As far as sprouting goes, get yourself some one-quart mason jars and some

cheesecloth. If you have a problem getting cheesecloth, just go to a

Wal-Mart and get cloth diapers. They work great!

Then go to the following site and follow their instructions, or search the

web for others that inspire you. http://www.sprouting.com/homesprouting.htm

By the way, there are two ways to sprout - water and soil. Water is the jar

method where you rinse and drain. The soil method is where you actually

grow seeds like buckwheat and sunflower. It's a little more complicated.

Also, juicing could be very, very helpful to you and I would strongly

suggest you begin juicing. But the BIG PROBLEM WITH JUICING is that it's

VERY concentrated and sometimes it makes one nauseous. But there's a way to

get around that.

1. Don't do fruit juices until much, much later on your journey.

2. Don't do all sweet veggies - carrots and beets, for instance. They

are high in sugar.

3. I would suggest 3 carrots, 2 leaves of romaine lettuce, 1 stalk of

celery. Then fill the rest of the glass with water. You need to dilute

that stuff.

I hope that helps. Feel free to ask as many questions as possible.

Also, it's my opinion that if you start this way, you won't have to even

consider fasting.

If you can do it, get organically grown fruits and vegetables, especially

for the juicing.

Best of luck.

Rose

July 2, 2003

DJ,

Sounds as though you are on the right track.

In my own case I simply thought that whatever I had been doing

had given me my " major illness with a short fuse on life " .

The solution therefore was to change my lifestyle by a 180 degree

turn around. And the pistol was at my head because any cheating

and would prove the doctor was telling the truth.

Let me illustrate with an example. As a smoker of 40-60 cigarettes

per day with a track record of 30 years or more and the doctor telling

me that smoking was particularly bad with my condition, it really was

no problem to stop; even though I had tried and failed dozens of

times before.

Nicotine is the most addictive substance on the planet. With that out

the

way all the other items that have to be cleared out are a trifle. Most

people

who have a life threatening disease have a dozen or more items to

eliminate.

I would tend to put them in an order similar to the following:

Red meat

Refined Sugar

Poultry

Bread

Game

Anything cooked

Fish,

Salt

Dairy products

Grain

Spices

Give each a week or so before moving down the list an item. If you hit

the

lot all in one go you could wind up in hospital with dizziness and all

kinds

of medical advisors saying take it easy and just eat our pills. You

probably

will get attacked by cravings. Just make a rush for the pure water or

green

vegetables.

With each passing day you will start to feel better, fatigue will drift

away.

One morning you will wake up and feel that illness is on the retreat and

the

medic is just insurance in the background. You are in control of your

health.

Then get a fresh blood test and start trimming the tablets where it

makes sense.

E.g. if you have tablets to thin your blood, compare your new viscosity

with the

old and question the merit of still taking them with your medical

advisor. I

know that in my case my medic said " I do not know what you are doing but

whatever

it is, you are heading in the right direction " I had already ditched

all my tablets.

Obviously, I cannot be specific about your illness as I do not even know

what it

is and if I did, I am not qualified to pass a medical opinion. I just

say that

unless you question everything that is put in front of you, you could

quite easily

be speeded down that road that you are so earnestly trying to avoid.

Just stay in and fight. There are those of us who believe that truly

incurable

diseases are rare indeed.

Peter

DJ Evans [starskygirl]

02 July 2003 11:40

rawfood

[Raw Food] i need your help!!

Hi, names DJ and I need your help! After much research an mega illness I

am going to switch my diet over to raw.

The problem is that I dont know how to start out, how to stay on this,

what exactly to make other than taking food out of the fridge and eating

it...I know nothing about sprouting.

I need all the help I can get so I am asking you knowledgable folks to

help guide me on my way here...please....

I am 40 and feel 90. If I dont do something soon I may not live to see

45!

Any tips, recipes, advice you have will surely help me!

Thanks

DJ

July 2, 2003

Peter,

I'm in transition to rawfoods, but I've been smoking since my 14 and

now I'm 37 and I'm must stop with this as soon as possible.

It's a priority to me.

How did you stop?

Please, tell me a way and I'll try very hard.

Thanks,

Patricia

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

(sorry my english;)

> Let me illustrate with an example. As a smoker of 40-60 cigarettes

> per day with a track record of 30 years or more and the doctor

telling me that smoking was particularly bad with my condition, it

really was no problem to stop; even though I had tried and failed

dozens of times before.

> Nicotine is the most addictive substance on the planet.

July 3, 2003

Please, allow me Peter.

I must tell my story, because it worked so well. Many years ago, I

had to use a restroom, and there was nothing else to read but a

Readers Digest magazine. Otherwise I wouldn't be caught dead reading

Readers Digest, but I must give credit where credit is due. Anyway

there was an article about quitting smoking. It was written by a

psychiatrist who had developed this system to help his wife quit. To

make a long story short I had been smoking for 25 years and quit.

Here is the system; you set a date when you will stop smoking. I made

mine about 1 ½ months in the future until that date I could smoke as

much as I wanted, but I could only smoke alone, and while doing

nothing else, no talking, no reading, no sitting on the pot, nothing.

(Once again I chose the restroom). The first day my habit dropped to

5 cigarettes a day. What happens is that you get over the habit of

smoking. Smoking can be very social and there are social triggers to

smoking like smoking after a meal, or while talking, or drinking. You

need to adjust to living your life without cigarettes. Then when the

date to stop comes, you only have to deal with the addiction. I have

not smoked since. That was 1983. I had tried to quit many times

before and nothing worked. I also read in another article that if you

try to quit and fail, keep trying, and you will find a way that is

best for you. Don't ever stop trying.

Doug

rawfood , " pairoftwo " <pairoftwo> wrote:

> Peter,

>

> I'm in transition to rawfoods, but I've been smoking since my 14

and

> now I'm 37 and I'm must stop with this as soon as possible.

> It's a priority to me.

> How did you stop?

> Please, tell me a way and I'll try very hard.

>

> Thanks,

> Patricia

> Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

> (sorry my english;)

>

> > Let me illustrate with an example. As a smoker of 40-60

cigarettes

> > per day with a track record of 30 years or more and the doctor

> telling me that smoking was particularly bad with my condition, it

> really was no problem to stop; even though I had tried and failed

> dozens of times before.

>

> > Nicotine is the most addictive substance on the planet.

July 3, 2003

Yes Doug,

Do not even worry about the odd lapse. Do not finish the odd deviant

cigarette

but rather stop at the third puff. Stub it out and if you have to,

light up another.

This applies particularly when drinking alcohol. In the morning get back

to the non smoking mindset.

Each person has to find their own way but even the readers digest says

that

you have to get your mind together to be successful.

Of course the same can be said of cooked food. It certainly does more

damage on

the planet than nicotine and as there is more of it about.

Peter

kauguy [no_reply ]

03 July 2003 06:10

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