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CELESTIAL RAW GODDESS TIMES

February~

 

Celestial Raw Goddess Times is a monthly newspaper devoted to living

In the raw.

 

This Issue~

Angela Elliott, Author of Alive in Five!

Carol Alt's new book review

Recipe of the month

Happy Valentine's Day!

Spinach, friend in small doses

 

 

Be sure to request next month's issue, you won't want to miss it!

Coming next month~

 

Kicking the sugar habit!

Wild Agave, what is it?

Recipe of the month

 

Angela Elliott, Author of Alive in Five!

 

Editorial Reviews

 

Book Description

Here is a great resource for anyone looking for easy alternatives to

complex raw recipes that require lots of time and expensive equipment

to prepare. Acclaimed raw chef Angela Elliott shows how to whip up

mouth-watering lasagne, spaghetti marinara, stuffed mushrooms,

broccoli in cheese sauce, apple pie, decadent whipped cream and

strawberries, chocolate shake, and more--all in about five minutes,

with easy-to-find ingredients and just a blender or food processor.

She shares her personal wellness journey and her playful enthusiasm

to make the book an enjoyable and inspiring guide to delicious

living.

 

About the Author

Angela Elliott was raised by a world-renowned physicist/chemist and a

gourmet French chef/writer mother whose occupations enabled frequent

travel abroad. She is a practitioner in holistic endeavors, including

Chinese medicine, nutrition, herbology, reflexology, culinary arts,

living food, and intuitive healing. Angela also has extensive

experience as a licensed paramedical aesthetician. She is the owner

and operator of Celestial Raw Goddess Enterprises, which promotes raw

food as a life-enhancing aspect of natural wellness. Angela currently

resides in San Diego, California with her husband and teenage son,

Ian, who has adopted the raw food lifestyle as well.

 

Angela's book is available for pre-order! You can order directly from

www.celestialrawgoddess.com

Or it can be purchased at all major bookstores throughout the world!

 

Angela will be at cilantro live next month for book signings. If you

are outside of San Diego, Ca and would like me to sign your book,

just send it to me and I will! You can also request that your local

bookstore arrange for me to do a book signing!!

 

Carol Alt's Eating in the Raw

By Angela Elliott

 

As a long time 100% Vegan Raw Foodist, I was excited as always to

See a new raw book! I was very impressed with the overall layout of

The book. The forward by Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D. Was fantastic!

His description of the raw food lifestyle is very well researched

And beautifully presented. This alone makes me delighted to have the

Book. I tried 4 of the recipes and they were good. My favorite two

Were Kelly's macadamia whipped cream and Kelly's lemon custard. I

Was impressed by how Carol believes in and defends the raw food

Lifestyle. I also liked her honesty about her popcorn slip ups. I

Love how down to earth she is. I loved how she pointed out in her

Book that the raw food lifestyle is not a fad. The first raw food

Restaurant opened in 1917 and stayed open until World War II. There

Are books on raw foods that date back to 1925 and I'm sure if I did

Even more research I would find books dating back even further. As

Carol puts it in reference to the books and restaurant, " That's too

Long ago for this to be a fad " . I think Carol is wonderful for the

Raw food movement. People admire her and respect her, so it can only

Help push the raw movement mainstream. My concern with book is that

She mentions eating raw meat and raw dairy. I agree that we are all

Different, but I have not seen any value or benefit from adding raw

Animal products to one's diet. I have seen fabulous results with the

Raw vegan lifestyle mixed with exercise. I culture all my foods and

Feel that this is vital to our health. Perhaps, this is why Carol

Adds raw dairy to her diet. It is quite simple to culture seeds,

Nuts, and coconuts and reap amazing health benefits from this. There

Are a few drawbacks to this book. The recipe section is very small

And surprisingly, none of the recipes are hers. There are many

Conflicting references in regard to eating animal products. Carol

Seems to spend a good deal of time defending that decision which

Ends up confusing the reader on whether one should or shouldn't eat

Raw animal products. The pro arguments aren't convincing enough. I

Would have liked to have seen solid up to date research. Although, I

Loved a lot of what was in Carol's book, I would not recommend that

Someone who is new to the raw food lifestyle purchase her book. It

Is too confusing. This is an excellent book for the raw food novice.

 

Raw Recipe of the Month~

 

Rainbow Sorbet by Angela Elliott

 

2 cups each of any of the following frozen fruits; pineapple, mango,

Strawberry and banana

Or 2 cups frozen strawberries, pineapple and banana

Or just frozen cherries.

 

Run the frozen fruit one type at a time through a champion, Samson

Or greenstar juicer without using the grate.

 

Valentine's Day Fun for Everyone!

 

Unique Ideas for Valentine's Day

By Angela Elliott

 

There are many ways you can show a loved one, big or small, that you

Love them. Over the years, I have collected many different ideas

From friends. Here are some of the unique ways you can spend

Valentine's day.

1. Dress up for each other in your nicest clothes and dance the

Night away.

 

2. Buy the " How Much I Love You " book. In the book where the other

Names are, place your loved one's name on top. Wrap up the book and

Give it to the one you love. You can make one for your lover and one

For your child.

 

3. Count down to Valentine's Day. Each day, write a sweet note to

Your loved one and give them a little something each day.

 

4. Buy a dozen roses or tulips and only give one each day for twelve

Days.

 

5. Fill a large jar, that you've decorated on the outside with how

And why you love the person you are giving the jar to, you can also

Add favorite quotes, song lyrics, poems, and anything else that

Would be meaningful to the person you are giving it to.

 

6. Stretch Valentine's Day out all year long. Cut out 365 hearts and

On those hearts, write anything you can think of that would make the

Person you are giving it to happy each day.

 

 

Here's a wonderful project you can do with your children

 

 

Plastic Hearts filled with love for the month of February~

What you will need:

Colored paper

28 1/4-inch- wide heart stickers

28 3/4-inch-long vegetarian capsules

1 clear plastic heart

Assorted colored ribbon

Round toothpick

3-inch piece of fine white wire

 

 

Instructions:

 

Hand write poems, quotes or personal love messages. Cut strips no

wider than 3/4 inch. Wrap each message around toothpick, forming a

small cylinder. Use heart sticker to seal outside edge of each

message. Slide message off toothpick; place inside capsule. Place

capsules inside plastic heart. Use curling ribbon to make bows to

trim heart; attach with fine wire. Or, use a hot-glue gun to attach

the trim.

 

Love is in the air every day. It's contagious! A smile can lift

someone up so high, they feel as though they could fly. A hug can

make someone's heart soar and even raise their immunity. The power

of love can heal anything. Love is a magical thing! Love isn't just

one day a year! Remember to never let a day slip away without

telling your loved one's how much they mean to you and how much you

love them.

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

 

 

Spinach, Friend in small doses~

 

Spinach high in carotenes and chlorophyll also fights cancer.

Reduces cholesterol.by accelerating the conversion of cholesterol to

coprostanol , which is excreted. High in calcium and oxylate, which

cancel each other out. Spinach and the Oxalate Debate

 

Cooked spinach is not good for you at all - especially in large

and/or constant quantities. Raw, on the other hand, is OK in

*reasonable* amounts. Caution is still the by word here as it does

some freaky things to the assimilation and absorption of some

nutrients.

 

The basic problem with cooked or raw spinach is that if one is

predisposed to gouty afflictions - eat it sparingly as it contains

purines. It can also assist in the development of kidney stones as

it also contains a higher-than-average amount of active oxalates.

 

Oxalic acid prevents calcium absorption.

 

To delve a little deeper...'organic' oxalic acid is one of the

important elements needed to maintain the tone of, and to stimulate

peristalsis (contractions of the intestines, occurring in waves,

which propel the intestinal contents onward). When a food is raw,

whether whole or in the form of juice, every atom in such food is

vital organic and replete with enzymes. Therefore, the oxalic acid

in our raw veggies and their juices is organic, and as such is not

only beneficial (in normal doses) but essential for the

physiological functions of the body.

 

The oxalic acid in cooked and processed foods, however, is

definitely dead, or inorganic, and as such is both pernicious and

destructive. Oxalic acid readily combines with calcium. If these are

both organic, the result is a beneficial constructive combination,

as the former helps the digestive assimilation of the latter, at the

same time stimulating the peristaltic functions in the body.

 

When the oxalic acid has become inorganic by cooking or processing

the foods that contain it, then this acid forms an interlocking

compound with the calcium even combining with the calcium in other

foods eaten during the same meal, destroying the nourishing value of

both. This results in such a serious deficiency of calcium that it

has been known to cause decomposition of the bones. This is why one

should never eat cooked or canned spinach.

 

As to the oxalic acid itself, when converted into an inorganic acid

by cooking or processing the food, it often results in causing

inorganic oxalic acid crystals to form in the kidneys.

 

Please keep in mind, however, that certain herbs - i.e., wood sorrel

have so much oxalic acid within that too much ingested can cause

severe stomach & kidney irritation, kidney damage, internal bleeding

and/or diarrhea. Minimal amounts in a salad, if one is healthy,

would be all right, but I still wouldn't recommend it. Sheep's

Sorrel, a constituent of Essiac, on the other hand is considered a

low-toxicity plant if not ingested in excessive amounts - especially

shouldn't be ingested by those with severely compromised renal

systems.

 

Oxalic acid forms notably insoluble salts with calcium, as I have

said, and in this form is also found in the dock and rhubarb

families (Rumex and Rheum) especially, but is also in many common

foods - tea, beet, parsley, and, of course, spinach - and in small

quantities in many other types of plant material. The main potential

problem with oxalates is in some types of urinary stones, formed by

precipitation of excessive oxalates in acid urine.

 

All my texts refer to the oxalic problem in dogs as being directly

related to the same calcium absorption problem that humans suffer

from ingestion.

 

So...basically...don't go overboard. If you feel the need to feed

this highly nutritious plant to anyone (animal or man) - go raw only

and limit it's intake.

 

1/2 cup contains an enormous amount of nutrients:

 

vit. A 737.1 RE

Folate 131.2 mcg

iron 3.2 mg

Magnesium 78.3 mg

calcium 122.4 mg

vit C 8.8 mg

Riboflavin 0.2 mg

potassium 419.0 mg

vit. B6 0.2 mg

 

 

 

 

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