Pastuerized Almonds To Be Labeled Raw

Pastuerized almonds are going to be deceptively labled as being raw.

This is a very good article on the subject.

http://www.newstarget.com/021776.html

Here's what Charlie Abel a leader in the raw food and fitness industry had to say about this forced almond pastuerization process.

I believe that what we're witnessing here is a prime example of the erosion of our freedom in America. It's been happening slowly, but surely, and now its touching each of your lives. I believe its only the tip of the iceberg, and a sample of unchecked government control getting out of hand. The first step in stopping this is to become aware of the problem, so I HIGHLY recommend that each of you go out and see the movie "America, Freedom to Facism" at www.freedomtofacism.com

Charlie Abel

I agree with Charlie and strongly recommend you see that movie to open your eyes to what's really going on behind the scenes.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

No More Raw Almonds

California Almond Board To Cook All Almonds

The California Almond Board has decided to pasteurize all almonds. Needless to say I'm not for this policy as this process will in effect cook the almonds and therefore make them less than ideal. This new policy will eliminate almonds from the diet of raw foodists. At least California grown almonds which are the world's largets supply of almonds.

Here's an email sent from Living Tree Community Foods

Almond pasteurization protest

Dear Friend,

The
California Almond Board has passed a mandatory almond pasteurization order on
Friday, March 30th. It mandates that all almonds be pasteurized. This is a gross
insult to the live food movement and to organic farming.

The
enlightened and progressive California Certified Organic Farmers has the power
to contest this. Please write to Peggy Miars, Executive Director peggy@ccof.org.
Ask her to mobilize and protest. Speak from your heart and send us a
copy.

Jesse Schwartz
President
Living Tree Community
Foods
jesse@livingtreecommunity.com

Here's something else you can do. If you want to still eat raw almonds then you should fill out this petition below.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/mandatory-almond-pasteurization-is-wrong.html

For all the details of this plan that was already passed with little consumer notification, please read this page.

http://www.almondboard.com/Programs/content.cfm?ItemNumber=890&snItemNumber=450

Take a minute to make your opinion known and the California Almond Board just might change their minds.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Get A Free Copy of My First CD

I have some exciting news to share with you. My first physical product, Your First 30-Days Raw, a live teleconference I did with Frederic Patenaude has just come out on audio CD. And you can get a free copy of it shipped to you at my expense, if you live in the United States or Canada.

If you live elsewhere, I'll give you a link to download the MP3 file version of the program.

You'll learn how to get through and enjoy your first 30 days of being raw with my system. Once you've been raw for 30 days with this system then staying raw doesn't require struggle or willpower. I'll show all the tips and tricks to making go raw as easy as possible.

Much of it is just coming from the right mindset. The right ideas can make it smooth sailing.

Here's the link to see what you could win.

http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00ZM94JZ


What Do I Have To Do To Get The CD?

You have to take a little bit of action, but I think you'll find doing this enjoyable, educational and inspirational.

I recently released my updated for 2007 version of Think and Go Raw. I have been working on improving the information on the page that promotes it. I've also added a really powerful bonus the Raw Food Warrior Technique that I've never before released to the general public.

As I was writing the letter describing Think and Go Raw I realized I was giving away valuable raw food and life success principles right in the very letter itself. I was giving away some of my secrets to success but only the perceptive would be able to unearth these principles from the page.

I didn't directly point out the success principles. They are hidden or imbedded in what I wrote but they are really there for you to use right now.

There are even some principles that aren't directly spoken about in the letter, but they are used in it. Only the truly perceptive will notice those. I might not even notice it myself on someone else's website.

No matter, whoever can come up with the most success principles in that letter, even if I didn't recognize them myself, will win themselves a free copy of Your First 30-Days Raw, and I also pay for the shipping in the United States or Canada.

How Do I Determine The Winner?

There's one other thing you need to do. You need to write your findings on your blog and then trackback to my post.

So just write a short post stating all the raw food and or general success principles you found on this page:

http://ThinkandGoRaw.com/book.htm

Make sure to list them: 1. 2. 3. etc. I'll choose the winner by the person who generates the most number of reasons and the quality of the answer. I believe there are at least five of those principles imbedded in the letter, if not more.

When you trackback or simply link back to my post I'll be able to see it on my blog. Here's the trackback link to include anywhere in your post:

http://roger-haeske.blogspot.com/2007/04/get-fre-copy-of-my-first-cd.html

Make sure it's a clickable link.

Most blogs are indexed by the search engines. At the bottom of my blog posts there's a link called "Links to this post".

You can check there if the link for your blog is has been picked up. From what I understand, it should show up within 24 hours or much less time than that. But I'm no expert.

If you don't have a blog but want one, you can use a free service just like I do with Blogger. Google automatically indexes all of their blogs because Google owns Blogger.

This is the quickest and easiest way to set up your own website and get it listed in the search engines quickly. This means you can start getting people from all over the world seeing what you have to say. It can be set up in less than 10 minutes.

Here's the link to start your own Blogger account in less than ten minutes.

http://www.blogger.com/start

What About 2nd and 3rd Place?

I'll also be giving away second and third place prizes. Anyone who I judge coming in second or third place, will get the downloadable version of Your First 30-Days Raw.

I bet you'll have a great time with this. Setting up a blog is really easy and it's a fun way to express yourself and your ideas. Every raw foodist should have their own blog. This way we can help spread the raw food message.

But also a blog can help to keep you accountable. You can post how you are doing with your raw diet on a daily basis. Some people have used this method to help them stay motivated and to make it easier to stay raw.

I urge you to get your own blog, I think you'll end up loving it.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Miracle Man Shames Most Of Us By Comparison

"What Are You Conditioned To Believe That Is Impossible?"

This past week I read the most amazing and inspiring book. I couldn't put the book down. It's a true story about a man who survived a plane crash and was a paraplegic and then recovered to live a normal life.

I have an inspirational quote from his book below. You are going to love it. It's quite rebellious and instructive at the same time.

I think you'll learn a lot from it. But please read my comments first so I can set up in your mind just how bad he really had it. That will more dramatically affect how you react to his quote, once you know where he was.

The best way to really appreciate it is to read the book or to watch his movie. I got a very cheap copy of his book from Amazon.com.

At the time, no one in medical history ever survived the breaking of the spine at the first and second vertebrae. All his doctors were telling him he had no chance of a normal life.

They didn't even expect him to survive his first night in the hospital because his body was so badly damaged by the crash. He actually died and he tells about looking down at the bloody crash scene and not wanting to go back. Then he was pulled back into his body and determined to not be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

Morris Goodman is a stubborn SOB and once he sets his mind on something, he achieves it. He never accepted his fate but instead VISUALIZED himself as someone who would live a normal life.

Of course, he had to take plenty of action and work really hard to achieve his goals. But he had to start with the belief that he could recover. Something that his doctors constantly tried to discourage him from believing.

Here's a quote he likes to use and mentions often in his book. It's a classic self-help / positive thinking type of quote and his book is laced with them. "Whatever You Can Conceive And Believe You Can Achieve." It's a great story and a lesson in super achievement that you can apply to your own life.

But in reality, he's not living a normal life, he's far surpassed what most people would achieve. Within 7 months or so he was out of the hospital and walking on his own.

Read below to see how badly he was damaged and then read his quote with a few of my comments interspersed. You'll see how you can use his example to achieve anything in life, but especially how you can succeed with the raw food diet.

If you think going raw is hard, imagine not being able to taste any food for almost three months. He was on an intravenous drip all that time and was unable to swallow. It tortured him to see and smell what other people were eating.

==> His Condition

The doctor said the fact that Morris Goodman was even alive would make medical history. No one has ever survived a break in the first and second cervical vertebrae.

Spinal column was crushed. Larynx was damaged so severely that he will never speak again. Also suffering permanent nerve damage which is causing a dysfunction of the liver, bladder, kidneys and the diaphragm which means he can't speak and will never breathe without the use of a respirator.

His swallowing reflexes were so severely damaged that he'll never be able eat or drink again. Doctor said he didn't believe he would survive the night.


** The Miracle Man Fights Back **

Morris always visualized himself leading a normal life. He didn't feel sorry for himself. He never let himself get SNIOP'ed or (susceptible to the negative influence of other people).

Please read this excerpt from the Miracle Man book. You can learn a lot from just this short reading about taking responsibility for your own life and health.

So many things he did parallel the kind of thinking and attitude you need to succeed at going raw. In fact, being able to stay raw is quite an accomplishment. Being raw will make you more confident and successful because you have achieved something extraordinary.

Of course, once you've been raw for a while it's really easy to maintain it's always just getting through the first thirty days wherein the challenge lies.

How many people do you think can say they've been 100% raw for a year? This is something to be proud about and also a major confidence booster, not to mention all the health, fitness and spiritual benefits. Who knows what other successes you'll achieve after boosting your self-esteem by having succeeded at going raw.

I do have a little secret. Going raw is easier than you think if you get the right support and information. But in either case, it requires leadership and independent thinking.

If you want to succeed, go with a coach who is 100% raw and who will show you all the psychological and dietary tricks to make it easy and enjoyable.

http://HowToGoRaw.com


** Quote From "The Miracle Man" **

From "The Miracle Man," by Morris Goodman Pg 105 - 106 (Note I sometimes add *** to add my own emphasis to his quote. Or I'll add my own comments and precede them with RH: and put them in parenthesis.)

************** "I was off to a rip-roaring start Friday morning. I got into a discussion (RH: By then he already recovered his ability to speak and breathe on his own - that was not easy.) about vitamins with one of the doctors making rounds. I told him that if I could get off all the pills I was taking and get back on my vitamins, I would make faster progress.

"I don't believe in vitamins," he said. A storm of rage swept over me.

"You might be a great doctor, but you are ignorant when it comes to nutrition," I replied. At this, he stomped out. (RH: I don't think most people would have the guts to say this to their doctor. They'd be too afraid of offending him, seeming stupid or even worrying that now the doctor wouldn't treat him as well as the other patients.)

I knew from my reading on nutrition that most doctors get only one three-credit-hour course in this vital subject during their extensive training. No wonder they are so defensive when approached about this, I thought; they can't dominate and control the conversation with a bunch of technical medical terms that only they understand.

After he had left, I was dressed and wheeled into the dining room for breakfast. Since my swallowing ability had improved, I was now taking my pills orally. A nurse appeared and set a tray of pills in front of me. *** I got my hand under the tray and threw them all over the floor. ***

"I'm not going to take anymore pills," I said. "The only way you'll get me to take them is to tie my hands behind my back and shove them down my throat." (RH: This guys got guts.)

"Suit yourself," she said and marched out.

Needless to say, this didn't sit well with the nursing staff or the doctors. During the coming week, they tried all kinds of pressure to get me to comply, but I stood my ground. Day by day, I began to feel better. *** I don't believe that any doctor can adequately predict how that many pills will interact with each other. ***

(RH: Note how he withstood the constant pressure from these doctors and nurses to take medication. He knew better, but after such a barrage, most people would weaken and eventually give in.

Same thing applies when you are trying to stay raw in a family situation where you are not supported. It's the exact same thing Morris had to deal with.)

So now I was a renegade, bucking the establishment. And others tried to do likewise. (RH: He's a leader as other people are now following his example.) This caused lots of problems for the hospital. The staff appealed to me to cooperate so that order could be restored.

"That is your problem, and you'll have to deal with it as best you can," I told them. *** My main concern had to be my own recovery.*** I wasn't going to be a model patient for their sakes, at the expense of my health. I was feeling better, and I wanted to keep it up."

**************

BRAVO Morris. So many times aspiring raw foodists fail because they put the needs of family and friends above their own health needs [to stay raw].

They sacrifice their own health, happiness and really, their lives so that they won't rock the boat. They wrongly think this is the right thing to do. If you want to go raw you have to be an independent thinker and understand what I call the "Freedom Principles."

Morris Goodman is a perfect example of this. You can learn a lot from reading his book.

You can also learn all the things you need to succeed on the Optimal Raw Food Diet by becoming a member of http://HowToGoRaw.com.

** How To See The Miracle Man **

You can see a video summary of his story at this link. I've found the video doesn't seem to work with Firefox but does with Internet Explorer.

http://snipurl.com/yi15

Plenty of other interesting resources on his site www.themiracleman.org.

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I hope you enjoyed this information about the Miracle Man. Let his example inspire your own life.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. If you want to experience the miracle of radiant health, achieving your ideal weight and unleashing the Superbeing within, then you should come on over to my site and take it for a spin.

http://HowToGoRaw.com

Why You Can't Breathe Deeply!

Back when I was about 5 or 6 years old I was visiting my grandparents in Toronto and a startling thing happened to me. For the first time I noticed I had a hard time breathing.

Something was blocking the flow of my breathing. This bothered me so much that I was looking in the mirror, up at my nose to see what was blocking the passage way. What I saw was actually skin that was protruding out in the upper part of my nose. I was worried about this and told my mother. She basically said not to worry about it.

I didn’t like it, but I soon forgot all about it. Fast forward to when I switched to a diet of 100% uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Er, I mean a Raw Food Diet.

After less than a month of eating like this I was able to breathe deeply and effortlessly again. For most of my life I had forgotten what deep breathing was like.

Now I know that for me and many others eating cooked food not only poisons your body, but it also lowers your ability to intake a stream of mountain fresh oxygen.

At first I couldn’t believe the deepness of my breathing. Even when I was breathing indoor air, it felt like I was breathing air in a pristine pine forest up in the mountains. I also noticed that all the flem I had in my lungs completely cleared out.

Looking back, I think maybe I had a minor form of asthma. At least I certainly had an impaired ability to breathe. But going raw quickly cured that.

This kind of ease of breathing is great for any athletic endeavors. But it also does something else amazing, when you can breathe deeply you feel happier. Deep and natural belly breaths actually give you a natural high. I’d be willing to bet that you can’t breathe as deeply as you could unless you’re already eating a 100% raw food diet.

Your body recognizes cooked food as poison. This is has been scientifically proven many times and with many cooked foods. After you eat a piece of "good for you" whole grain bread, your white blood cell count will skyrocket.

Your body will also create mucus to help transport the poison out of your body. Thus the whole theory behind the classic book, “The Mucusless Diet Healing System.” Eat foods that don’t cause your body to produce mucus and you can live in paradise health. Some of the worst offending cooked foods are dairy products and grains. If you eat these foods, you'll never know what it's like to breathe properly.

If you want to know what it’s like to breathe truly deep breaths, then you’ll want the easiest way to thrive on the raw food diet. Think and Go Raw, the 2007 updated version will show you all the tricks you need to motivate yourself to go raw and without endless willpower.

By the way -- if you have to rely on willpower alone, you'll never succeed at staying raw for the long haul. You must learn the psychological strategies to grease your way to raw eating. Going raw doesn’t have to be a struggle, it can be as easy as sliding down a water slide, if you have the right ideas and the right training. Just one concept from my book, might be the one take you over the top to raw food diet success.

http://ThinkandGoRaw.com/book.htm

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

How I Squashed The Flu And So Can You!

Getting the flu sucks! One time I had the worst flu ever and it lasted 6 weeks. This was in the winter of 1997, during my first serious attempt at going 100% raw.

I used to get the flu about once a year. It's been over 6 years now since I've had the flu. Actually, I can't quite remember exactly how many years it's been. It could be more than six, but I'm sure it's been at least 6 years.

Who likes being out of commission, in bed with a fever, scratchy throat and constantly coughing and sneezing for a minimum of 1 to 2 weeks?

It's not my favorite way of getting time off. When you're self-employed, getting the flu is not only a miserable experience, but you're also losing plenty of money and opportunities.

This is true of employees as well but it's just harder to realize due to the benefit of sick days. But who do you think is going to get the first opportunity at a raise? The person who's sick for two weeks out of the year, or the person who never gets sick.

You'll simply be more valuable and productive to your employer if you don't get sick.

When I had my worst flu ever, in the winter of 1997, I was eating 100% raw.

Yes, that's right... I was 100% raw and I had the worst flu ever. Some of my raw food friends attribute it to the initial detox of going 100% raw, but I know now that wasn't why I had such a hard time overcoming the flu.

The reason I had the flu was because I was doing the raw food diet plain wrong. I was loading up on one kind of food as my staple that simply shouldn't be a staple.

After a month of eating like this, my body started changing. Every time I took a bite of this food at room temperature, it would send shivers down my spine. I was freezing all the time.

This is a fine raw food; I simply wouldn't make it something you'd eat on a daily basis as your main staple, for weeks on end.

This food has powerful natural cooling properties. This I found out in later readings, from several independent sources. One of those sources was the quasi raw nutritionist Paul Bragg.

It's crazy that I had to read this information somewhere else before I applied it in my own life. I should have known it from my own experience, but I was just too green when it came to eating a raw food diet to understand. I found out the hard way, through painful experience.

I was stubborn because I had faith in the raw diet no matter how much my health had deteriorated. But it wasn't the raw diet that was wrong, I just didn't know what the heck I was doing, even though I had read many raw food books.

So what is this food? Actually it's a whole category of food – citrus fruit.

I ate a ton of oranges in the winter of 97. They had really good oranges that year. I hardly ate any fatty foods because at the time they were hard for me to digest and because they weren't that interesting to me.

I barely ate bananas because at that time I didn't even realize that bananas are ripe when they start getting black spots on them. I had so much to learn about how to do a raw food diet in the right way.

But in my ignorance I blamed the raw food diet for my problems. I also thought that my body was damaged and couldn't do a 100% raw food diet. I held that thought for many years only to eventually realize I was wrong.

So why don't I get the flu anymore? It's simple. I eat an Optimal Raw Food Diet and do it correctly. This makes me much more resistant to colds and flues than the average bloke. It doesn't matter if you're around children all the time. I was a tennis pro, teaching children every day.

All that matters is that you eat correctly and do the seven other major things necessary for optimal health. I don't care how good your diet is, if you don't get any exercise, you aren't going to be healthy or reaching your full potential. Same goes for sleep, etc. It's not just about eating raw but about being healthy.

If you want to save years of trial and error in learning how to go raw, then I suggest you visit my coaching and support website, http://HowToGoRaw.com. If you want to avoid six weeks of the flu and all the other mistakes I made along the way, then I suggest you become a member.

I believe I have the best and most affordable training and support program to help you succeed with the Optimal Raw Food Diet. Coaching, mentoring and the support of like-minded people makes all the difference in the world.

Trying to make it by yourself with books alone is very hard. You need to be able to ask questions and get feedback. You need an expert coach there beside you when things seem to be going wrong and you're losing your faith in eating raw.

I can help you to pinpoint what isn't obvious to you. I can detect the subtle errors in your approach that a book just can't do.

Also keep in mind that if you join http://HowToGoRaw.com you'll also get my updated for 2007 version of Think and Go Raw. You'll learn my 33 strategies to crush cooked food addiction permanently! This is a $24.97 value and will really help you to make a painless transition to your natural diet, the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

HowToGoRaw.com gives you so much more. I can't possibly list all the great resources that you'll have at your fingertips. You'll learn quick, easy, hearty and delicious raw food recipes that you can make in 10 minutes. You get a whole library of educational raw food audios, ebooks and special reports.

This is the best way I know of to go raw besides having me live with you or give you personalized coaching.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

Re: Save Time - Burn Fat - Get High!

Why do a boring jog or aerobics an hour or more per day when you can get twice as fit in just 15 minutes by doing Lightning Aerobics?

If it were the choice between running and doing no exercise at all, I'd certainly go running. But why limit yourself to jogging when you could be getting a powerful natural high in 15 minutes or less of doing Lightning Aerobics. You can still jog if you want, but my first priority would be doing Lightning Aerobics.

I'm totally pumped right now and feel awesome. I just finished a mini-lightning aerobics workout. It was only about 7 minutes long, but I was breathing heavy and pumped up and built up my muscles at the same time. I did a 15 minute session in the morning as well.

This high is such an amazing feeling. You can't get this type of high from jogging. It's just not possible.

Why? Because with Lightning Aerobics you are actually strengthening the muscles in your legs, upper body, abdominals and back while at the same time creating a superior aerobic workout.

Trust me, you'll be huffing and puffing but it feels oh-so-good. You'll feel on top of the world and once you get in the habit of doing my program, you'll never want to stop. Nothing and no one will be able to pull you away, once you feel what this high is like.

This is true motivation to exercise.

Many runners jog for an hour or more per day. In fact, I was at our local Raw Health and Happiness Society Raw Food potluck last night and my previous forum post came up for discussion.

This woman who is a jogger was shocked that I would only run for 15 to 20 minutes. In fact, many times in my life, I'd tell people I hardly ever workout for more than a half hour at a time and they were amazed.

How did I get in such good shape with such a short workout, while everyone else is slaving away for hours at the gym? The reason is because the Lightning Speed Fitness Program saves time compared to most other fitness programs. The simple bodyweight exercises in my program work multiple muscles at the same time.

No dangerous muscle isolation exercises. Those kinds of exercises lead to injuries because they create muscular imbalances. This leads to muscle tears and rips. Hard to get fit when you're constantly recovering from injuries. Tis a common problem with weight lifters and people who use machines at the gym.

Imagine doing only a few exercises and pumping up all the major muscle groups and at the same time getting the best aerobic workout in your life. This is the ultimate in fitness time management. You get a powerful combination of results.

Some of the exercises even give you a good stretch. You get aerobic fitness, muscular development and stretching all in one.

This is not to say that you can't or shouldn't exercise for more than 15 minutes. I love doing these exercises so much that I take little exercise breaks throughout the day. Just like my mini-Lightning Aerobic workout I mentioned above.

About Burning Fat:

What will burn more fat, doing an hour of jogging or 30 minutes of Lightning Aerobics?

Why Lightning Aerobics of course. Now I don't have any direct scientific studies to back me up on this. But I do know that the more muscle you put on, the more fat you burn and the faster your basal metabolism will be.

In fact, a pound of fat burns only 2 calories per day and yet a pound of muscle burns 75 calories a day.

I do know that studies comparing jogging or moderate intensity aerobics to a much shorter but more strenuous form of exercise, came up with fascinating results. Although jogging for long periods of time does burn fat, it doesn’t end up helping you much in terms of weight loss.

Why? Because although the joggers burn a lot of fat, their body's put the fat right back on their hips and butts. The assumption is that if the body needs all that fat to fuel your exercise routine, it will then store any excess fuel as fat.

It's like the fat wants to stick to you when you're just a jogger. You're actually training your body to put on fat.

Train it instead to put on muscle. This is the only way to get the muscle high.

So come on over to the force of Lightning and train your body to burn fat and not store it. You'll not only get a super natural high, but you'll take the pounds of blubber off and have a new level of self-confidence that running for an hour can never give you.

If you really want to really live, then I suggest you give Lightning Aerobics a try. You can learn all about it by getting yourself a copy of the Lightning Speed Fitness Program.

http://lightningspeedfitness.com/

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. I've just added supplemental information about Lightning Aerobics in the member's only forum. There's also more in Bodyweight Fitness Secrets. This is a fabulous bonus ebook you get by joining our super fitness club.

http://LightningSpeedFitness.com