Our Joy for Life retreats are becoming increasingly popular. The word spreads out and each of these events fills up fast. Many people return for the second and third times.
Valya has videotaped two more amazing testimonials for you. The first one is about reversing the symptoms of ffibromyalgia in 4 days
The following clip shows how elimination of MSG stopped chronic migraines
The immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body. If you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues (1). This can damage many parts of the body, including organs such as the heart and lungs. Generally, lupus is considered a chronic autoimmune disease.
The woman in this latest video from Valya has had lupus for 25 years. After a week of green smoothies and detox at the Raw Family's , she noticed that by the third day she was pain free and shares that she shares that "Green smoothies are probably going to be the best way for me to work with my body to heal myself of lupus".
The next Joy for Life Retreat will be in February, in Southern California. Click for more details.
I believe that our human body is a miraculous healer. Sometimes we think that only medical treatments and drugs can heal our deficiencies and illnesses, but are we really deficient in any drugs or chemicals? If anything in the world can heal our organism, it is our body.
I am thankful to Valya for videotaping the following testimonial and I appreciate this woman’s courage to give green smoothies a try, to heal and to share her success story with the world.
In this video, Sergei Boutenko takes you shopping to understand the variety of greens available in a super market. These common greens can and should be used for making green smoothies. Sergei intends to give you some new green smoothie ideas to help add variety to your greens selection.
Here are the greens discussed in this video (in order):
1.) Lettuce
a. green leaf
b. red leaf
c. romaine
d. butter head
2.) Swiss Chard
3.) Dino Kale
4.) Bok Choy
5.) Celery
6.) Carrot Greens
7.) Cilantro
This message was originally written for the Raw Family's in 2008.
Dear Friends,
We like shopping at stores that carry organic foods. The organic industry is a fast- growing industry in the United States. We’re not the only ones who notice that - large corporations do too. Recently I ran across a unique website created by assistant professor of Michigan State University,Philip H. Howard, PhD. From this website I learned that my favorite frozen fruit company, Cascadian Farms, is in fact owned by General Mills. I contacted Dr. Howard and he graciously gave me permission to publish his research link. You will find out many more connections:
Odwalla - owned by Coca Cola
Naked Juice - owned by Pepsi
Spectrum Organics, Garden of Eden, Celestial Seasonings and others- owned by Heinz
Boca Foods and Back to Nature - owned by Kraft
Dagoba Chocolates - owned by Hershey
Morningstar Farms - owned by Kellogg
Horizon and White Wave - owned by Dean
Nature’s Farm - owned by Tyson
Annie’s Naturals - owned by Solera Capital
Maranatha - owned by American Capital Strat. Ltd.
Power Bars - owned by Nestle
Seeds of Change - owned by M&M Mars
You may see for yourself; look for your favorite companies at this web site.
One can imagine how difficult it is to maintain small organic food factories. I once opened a raw food bakery (remember our piroshkis and scones?) and was only able to survive four weeks before I got stuck in debt and had to close down. Since this experience I consider all organic farmers and health food companies to be heroes, as they are competing with those who sell sugar and white flour products. Even though the prices of organic products seem high to us, very often they earn as little as a charity. I completely understand how the smaller companies often feel forced to crawl under the wing of larger corporations. The good news is that we have a way to support small corporations: by buying locally grown food.
