Books & Helpful Tips
Some Books of Interest to your Well-Being
Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko - this is one of the best books and easiest to read books I have ever read for anyone wanting to improve their well being! Green smoothies have changed my life and I wish I had known about them before..so I just hope to inspire people to read this fabulous, definitely worth a read book.
12 Steps to Raw By Victoria Boutenko. A great book about giving you tips on how to go raw. And it is also easy to read. I think this is a great book for new comers to Raw Food. This really helped me understand more about why eating raw food is good for you.
Rawvolution by Matt Amsden is one of my favourite Raw Food recipe Books because it easy to follow & it has great recipes with great photos! Also it has the famous onion bread recipe.
Sunfood Success Systems By David Wolfe An excellent book. He talks about super foods and raw foods. And goes into how much we should eat in terms of nuts, vegetables, and fruits. He is mine of information. There are some fantastic Kirlain photos of raw foods too, showing you the proof of how full of energy raw food really is! It is a great handbook for anyone interested in raw food. A must have book if you want to educate yourself.
Superfoods - The Food and medicine of The Future by David Wolfe I bought this book a month ago whilst I attended The David Wolfe 2010 The Best Ever You event in London. David has such a powerful inspiring energy and it also comes through in his books. Superfoods is a great book to add to your Raw food books. It is really easy to read and it covers the benefits of what David considers to be the top ten superfoods and more. Some of the delicious & nutritionally - energised Superfoods David covers in this book are things like Goji Berries; Cacao; Maca; Bee Products; Spirulina; Aloe Vera; Coconuts & more. Each topic is covered in depth with an abun-dance of scientific factoids & research along with beautiful illustrations and recipes. Choosing the path of eating raw foods is a truly wonderful & liberating journey of discovering the abun-dance of natures pharmacy . And for this reason we cannot overlook the benefits of superfoods to help further enhance our physiological and spiritual being. They are loaded with much needed enzymes. The more enzymes we can add to our bodies the more efficient our homeostasis will be. Superfoods are part of the raw food jigsaw. They enhance our health & well being and are just great to add to any recipe.
Green Smoothie Revolution by Victoria Boutenko – this book has 200 recipes for green smoothies from your optimum health! This is one of my favourite smoothie books.
Raw. The Uncook book. By Juliano. He is a raw chef and is famous amongst the showbiz celebrities. His recipes are amazing and so are the photos ! Now out of print.
The Kitchen Garden cookbook By Steve Meyerowitz This book is full of great information all about sprouting your own beans, seeds, nuts & grains. He gives good information on the nutritional value of all the sprouts. Its full of funny cartoon images and is quite an entertaining book. This was one of my 1 st books that I bought when I heard about the benefits of sprouts on our immune system! It has quite a good selection of recipes too.
The Complete Guide to Sprouting Sprouts The Miracle Food By Steve Meyerowitz (Sproutman) Another book on how to sprout . More about sprouting .than the previous book.
Eat Smart Eat Raw By Kate Wood. This is one of the first books I bought on raw food. I would recommend this to any beginner who is about to indulge in the raw food. Full of easy to follow raw food recipes.
Rainbow green Live-Cuisine By Gabriel Cousens M.D.This book introduces an Ayurvedic dietary approach. It is a book for anyone interested in nutrition and much more than just recipes. I love this book. The photos of live blood analysis are amazing showing you what your blood is like before and after going on a raw food diet.
Conscious Eating By Gabriel Cousens M.D. Another great book where Gabriel Cousens provides loads of facts & wisdom in support of a raw food diet. It is a 30 year investigation into the at, science & practice of raw food.
Raw Liberty at the Table by Lisa Simpson (ebook click here)
Me Raw: You Cooked by Emma & Rod MacDougall (ebook click here)Earthing The Most important health discovery by Clinton Ober. This is a really important subject for anyone who is interested in their health. Grounding the body helps to reduce any inflammation in the body & improves the immune system which really covers any disease. This book brings together the Eastern Chinese prinicples with the Western Scientific research about the affects of grounding on the body. The body can be grounded in many ways and one way is with using a grounding sheet. I actually have a grounding sheet and it really helps me to sleep better. It has lots of testimonilas too just to make sure you get the jist of it all.
The Anastasia Books by Vladimir Megre- this collection of 9 books. If you feel the need to be inspired further by nature and self growth then these are a must read! Whether you decide to believe this story or not it is entirely up to you? That is all I can say. Magical reading.Mutant Message from Down Under by Marlo Morgan This must be one of the most enjoyable books I ve ever read. It touched my soul. It is beautifully written. And is a book I think i will always re-read as it will help remind me of how the `Real People` (Aborigines) lived in harmony with nature. And maybe one day we will learn how to be truthful which helps to create a pure heart? And also learn how distinguish what the most important things are in life, like learning how to improve ourselves bit by bit but not in our typical Western superficial materialistic way. This is definately worth adding to your reading list. And it is Shamanism at its best!
Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert.
The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters by Simon Buxton.
Some tips on how to integrate raw into your lifestyle!
My reason for turning to the live raw food lifestyle was for health reasons. I had seen many a therapist for advice until I visited a leading Naturopathic Iridologist who was able to advise "Eat live raw food".
It has been a difficult and long journey to find my ideal diet, but it has had such positive impact on every aspect of my being. I did not know that eating just live raw food would lead to other wonder-full insights into other areas of my life. But that's another story. So you might find these tips of help:-
- Introducing say a GREEN SMOOTHIE every day is just a great way to start- 60% greens & 40% fruit -this helps to stop cravings.
- The most important thing to remember is it is not about being 100% raw for everybody. For some people it is about 80%, 50% raw and so on and so forth.
- Its about just adding one or two healthier things on a daily basis and then maybe avoiding one thing say like pasteurised non-organic dairy or red meat.
- The less stress you introduce into your daily plan of action and also keeping things SIMPLE then you are more likely to have success. (if you compare us to an elastic band then if you pull this too much in one direction it will only` ping` back to the beginning!)
- Stress is a big influential factor in any life-changing -habit.
- Never ever give yourself a hard time if you eat the wrong thing.
- Try and ask yourself at that moment in time of weakness ``What could I eat that could be I step better than this?`` eg if you are going for a packet of salty crisps then you might find going for unsalted crisps better or maybe even promising yourself to make some dehydrated crackers next time.
- Using dehydrated foods is a great way to help you transition from the typical high carb diet into the raw health way of eating.
- Think of it as a lifestyle change rather than use the word DIET-eeek!
- PREPARE raw dishes in advance- organise! So you don't catch yourself eating things that are not HEALTHY when you are feeling hungry – this is one of the biggest secrets to any life changing eating habits.
- INSPIRATION is the key! Go to as many raw food orientated social events like potlucks, demos, visit raw friends, go to raw food festivals, join websites that help to SUPPORT raw & read raw food magazines!
- Surrounding yourself with POSITIVE loving people helps too.
- Try EXERCISE that you enjoy- it makes you feel really good about yourself.
Keep yourself GROUNDED with
exercise, RELAXATION
and some form of non-suppressive meditation – stress makes the body
acidic!
http://youtu.be/XumPQLTzPWI
Image: Grounders flip-flops from The Longevity warehouse- Listen to some uplifting music.
- NEVER GIVE UP - just start again, and again how ever many times it takes because it is our intention that counts.
- Remember that addictions & cravings can often be allergies. The human body never craves anything that's destructive to it-so when you crave unhealthy foods it is the psyche-often these unhealthy foods numb our emotions. Food is often tied up with loads of emotional memories - from Mums homemade cookies to homemade custard & how you felt around those times.
- If you have emotional things to sort out get support (click here for all the things I used to help me heal my heart)
- Food state supplements, super foods, herbs are sometimes very helpful especially when raw & help some cravings if there is a imbalance/lack of nutrients in the body. I think its also helpful to see/consult an experienced practitioner. Sometimes when we are on a path of changing our eating lifestyle we need some lab tests done, because sometimes we can get stuck on what is right and what is wrong for our body's health. As Gabriel Cousins says "One of the problems with both the meat eating world AND the vegan world is that they don’t want to hear any science that they don’t agree with."
- Most of all learn to love your self more.
