Digging Deep for Science that Tastes Great – Grassy Roots 7 – Scientific Evidence, and Making Veggie Kraut
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Summary
This episode of Grassy Roots on Channel 6 features Dr. Jim Carey and Beth Overgaauw discussing the benefits of a raw living foods lifestyle and how simple dietary changes can lead to healthier living. Dr. Carey shares his own experience transitioning to a diet that is predominantly raw, with occasional fish and meat, noting improved energy, better sleep, and stronger nails. They tackle common concerns such as protein intake on plant-based diets, debunking myths by referencing animals like horses and cows that thrive on plant proteins and citing scientific research, particularly The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. This landmark study supports the health benefits of plant-based diets and their role in preventing and reversing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
The conversation further critiques the modern food industry and pharmaceutical companies, highlighting the negative impact of processed foods, pesticides, and malnutrition despite abundant food availability. The episode also emphasizes the importance of educating oneself about nutrition and lifestyle changes to avoid chronic illness, rather than relying solely on medication. They introduce practical elements of the raw foods lifestyle by demonstrating how to prepare fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut and “veggie kraut,” a faster ferment using underground vegetables. The process is described as simple, cost-effective, and beneficial for gut health due to natural fermentation.
The show also features an organic gardening segment with Frank Colvin, who offers beginner-friendly advice on soil preparation, tilling, weed control, and organic fertilizers like manure. This segment underlines the importance of homegrown organic produce as a foundation for healthy eating. Throughout the program, the hosts encourage viewers to explore raw living foods through recommended resources, websites, and documentaries, asserting that lifestyle changes involving diet are key to reversing chronic diseases and achieving lasting health.
Highlights
- [01:30] 🌿 Dr. Jim Carey shares his mostly raw diet and its positive effects on his energy and health.
- [04:20] 📚 Introduction of The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell as scientific proof of plant-based diet benefits.
- [07:20] ⚡ Explanation of how plant-based diets create an alkaline environment that inhibits cancer growth.
- [13:00] 🍽️ Discussion on the limitations and risks of gastric bypass surgery and the importance of lifestyle change.
- [24:00] 🥬 Step-by-step preparation of sauerkraut as a simple, healthy fermented food.
- [45:00] 🌱 Organic gardening basics with Frank Colvin, emphasizing soil preparation and natural fertilizers.
- [56:00] 💊 Critique of pharmaceutical reliance and advocacy for diet-based prevention and reversal of chronic disease.
Transcript
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on Channel 6 television grassy roots with Dr Jim Carey and Beth Overgaauw a show which will guide you down paths to healthier living by simply adjusting your eating habits stay tuned to channel 6 for Grassy route [Music] foreign [Music] of grassy Roots here on Channel 6 television I am here again with Dr Jim Carey who is leading me down a path of the raw living Foods lifestyle hello Jim hi Beth how are you today I’m doing great how are you doing super thank you yeah better now that I’m here it’s been a long time
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since we’ve gotten front of the cameras again at least it seems that way weeks go by real fast and they take a long time um it depends on what we’re doing in our lives you’ve been staying highly raw pretty much you know at least a breakfast is highly raw my lunch is medium raw and then at night it’s 70 percent raw I have meat about four times a week still oh a fish yeah I don’t do beef anymore no more beef how do you feel I feel pretty good I feel pretty good um I’ve been more energetic
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slept better my nails look at that oh you know my nails are seeing the difference already major major difference in my nails they’ll grow faster too yeah yeah yeah and I’ve always had to have acrylic nails so that’s that’s significant for me one of the neat side effects or benefits that yeah yeah they find out for yourself I’ve been thinking this week though as I you know I plan for this episode um when I tell people that I’m trying this new eating lifestyle they they ask
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about the Protein that’s a typical question how do you get enough protein but um if you mentioned that you you feel better it has a health benefit some of them think you know like where’s your documentation where’s the proof you know how come we don’t hear about this on on major network television you know that that eating raw vegetables is will make us healthier let me ask you a question first okay um where do you get your protein uh lately nuts I think have been the major in those a lot of those Sprouts I’ve been
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eating nuts and greens but you know when people are questioning your lifestyle um you know it’s always neat to answer a question with a question and put it back on them so here’s a good one for you word of horses and cows get their protein well they must get it from grains mostly yeah and then grasses yeah greens and grasses and look how big they are yeah so it’s not like you’re not going to get enough protein right and we could go down long well we’ve talked about the protein myth on a previously
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well I know one thing that has reduced I don’t think my protein has I haven’t worried about that a bit I think I’ve reduced my carbs you know and that’s a good thing because carbs made me sleepy yeah if I ate a lunch that had potatoes and bread by half an hour later I’d be oh yeah really zonked out because the highs from the sugar and then the the change when so I don’t have that yeah we keep this up and you’ll be doing the show without me scientific evidence Beth there’s science
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I I found documents books going back to 1860s to talk about the advantage of a plant of a plant-based versus uh animal protein-based diet but when people see a book from 1860 or 1905 or 1940 they say oh you know they don’t trust it because it’s old okay well I brought with me the scientific answer for today’s world this is The China Study by Dr T Colin Campbell he’s an MD and a PhD he spent over 40 years as a government researcher working for the FDA and for the I believe it was American Cancer Society
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he has over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and document and journals like the American Journal American medical journal and the New England Journal of Medicine I mean this is the who’s who in research and he wrote this book The China Study because after 40 Years of doing this and by the way um he went from meat eater to vegetarian to vegan over the years he got into a Health Challenge uh with his voice and he went on a raw vegan diet to heal his voice and get his voice back because uh the doctors told me well you’re just
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gonna have to get one of those voice boxes and learn to talk like that oh yeah so when he retired he was very concerned he was actually upset by the fact that his papers for 40 years have have proven that people respond best and live best on a plant-based diet I understand he went into this as a re with a presupposition because he grew up on a dairy farm he knew we needed meat and dairy so he had to prove that out of himself in his early years and that all happened it all occurred um what I like about the book is that
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it’s written for Layman and especially the first hundred pages are simple and straightforward it’s called The China Study because one of the largest studies he worked with was 8 000 people in China for over a decade that they tracked their diet and their health but he addresses issues here in the just in the first section lessons from China turning off cancer plant-based diet again a house of proteins problems we Face Solutions we need diabetes heading the list obesity and and throughout all of
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these he shows where animal research and human research time and again has shown that the plant-based diet he actually explains how a plant-based diet turns cancer off I I love you speechless that’s great it takes away the food for the cancer I suppose yeah is that what happens yeah cancer thrives in a low oxygen acidic environment and a plant-based diet gives you a high oxygen alkaline environment in your body and especially in your blood and cancer can’t survive surviving that and that’s
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where they that’s where these so-called spontaneous remissions come from um because the cancer it’s better than chemo right and it’s there but it’s hard for the medical establishment to make any money doing it that way well you know you can you can through the channels and get to those channels that do documentaries on obese people who are going through gastric bypass surgery you know the morbidly ill but um there in America alone just plain obesity not morbidly but a plain obesity
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is a pretty serious problem coupled with the increase in our heart disease increases in Cancer all these things tied to obesity the funny thing is if you if you and they tied to the eating if you if you cut your weight all these other all these other health challenges just go away um 80 of America is overweight um that’s and and that leads to the heart disease um that the cancers even into the osteoporosis and all the other health challenges that we take more and more pills for and the answers in our diet
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neat thing about the book they wanted to share 35 pages of bibliography and look how small that types oh yeah I mean this is a scientific it’s a scientific journal second and third parts of the book you see he gets into all the charts and graphs I mean he he lays out all the science here but look at this chapter right here how to eat well you can do your own research too because because of my interest in all this I’ve been going on the internet and plugging in different subjects I have an
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interest in ulcerative colitis for example and I found a research-based project on that where they’re subjects to having done the wheatgrass juice um we’re healed and those on the placebo were not you know and this was a scientific study but you don’t see that coming out and coming through the ulcerative colitis Doctors Clinic you know the unique thing about scientific studies that include Placebo is that for most of our so-called Wonder drugs and Miracle drugs people do better on the
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placebo than they do on the new drug but they don’t publish that part of it maybe 25 will show an improvement on Placebo and 18 on the actual drug so it’s Mind Over Matter sometimes it was Placebo well actually before healing is physical mental emotional spiritual that’s why we talk about things like we don’t own our diseases in other words I don’t have cancer I’m overcoming cancer okay um little mind twists like that start the healing process right there I maintain that on almost any diet people
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do better for three months because they change what they’re putting in their body but after three months you get into new imbalances and new challenges because you’re still not eating the way the body was designed um I won’t name names but um how I got involved with Ann W was a similar process I had gone from here to there to vegetarian to some other primarily raw based diets but a lot of my research was based on typing in problems with problems with blah blah blah and oh people don’t hesitate to put
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up websites and blogs about oh I did really well on that program for five years and then boom because they were eating too narrow they they weren’t eating a balanced well enough balanced diet some of those programs I I’ve encountered like that have changed since then and I respect that when somebody says Ah we do see some problems here but when I say type in problems with anne w diet problems with raw living Foods I didn’t find any what I did find was testimonials from people that said I
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want to look more 35 years ago I’m still cancer free I’m still asthma free I’m still whatever um that’s actually how I found Dr Ann’s program six years ago and I know on your websites um rawdoctors.com and she diet of course you have the videos for people to see but she don’t blog and many other routes that people can go through to do their own research on this and sure they’ll probably find some people that call the raw vegans uh you know alternative thinkers or whatever but but they’re
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going to find evidence too that it works I on YouTube last night came across a video I believe I came across it because of your website though I was going through the links you know and I found a YouTube video of a young man who was 500 pounds and he almost had the gastric bypass surgery and had not had tried everything he says it in his video all the things he tried and now he’s a big time proponent of the raw living Foods lifestyle it looks good and I think his name was Michael I remember yeah
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and uh you find on the internet too are the people that it’s worked for I saw an AMA study just a few weeks ago I mean that’s when I happen to see it I’m not sure how far back it went so 25 of the people that have gastric bypass surgery have complications they’re from and the other thing that’s happened to an acquaintance of mine that did that she did the bypass surgery with liposuction so she lost over 300 pounds in a week but because she didn’t change her eating patterns she’s gaining the weight back
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right I’ve heard that too and she’s getting bigger and bigger again and there’s no there’s no second time around on this no that was a One-Shot deal and she went from 600 pounds to I mean almost 600 pounds to down under 200 what especially liposuction and while she hasn’t mentioned physical side effects of it by not changing her life pattern she’s just getting large again and all that money gone and it’s a matter of educating yourself not only about what the different foods can do for the
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different parts of your body and what the vitamins are in the foods that you’re eating it’s like you said the person who thought they were doing good because they ate so much fruit and they became borderline diabetic yeah you got to watch that what you do is you have to be informed and she actually became insulin dependent diabetic oh but she was living almost exclusively on proof right and all that Sugar did her in yeah so yes it’s about there’s no substitute for educating yourself it sounds so
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simple to just grab something off the off the shelf and say I’m not going to worry about what I eat but ignorance is not Bliss in this case ignorance is suicide it’s it’s fairly irresponsible I mean it’s irresponsible and we think we know what’s good for food and good this and that but they’re what we call social mores social is something that everybody believes because everybody believes it like we all know the World is Flat okay and we all know that the Universe revolves around the earth oh wait a
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minute we don’t believe those two anymore we changed those two yeah okay but those are social mores of the time okay um so too is it with like what I call the protein myth Americans consume five times as much protein as they need that has side effects causing osteoporosis but people say where are you going to get the protein you need you really don’t need but a fifth of what you think or what you’ve been eating so these social mores do us in because we think we know what a balanced meal is and the large
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agribusiness and large pharmaceutical they’re pushing hey if we maintain the status quo we’re going to make lots of money off of you um when you educate yourself to the realities it’s a real eye-opener and you’re just shocked like why doesn’t everybody know this but it just it’s like Colin this book was this book was written um I’m trying to remember it’s like I’ve had I’ve had this copy for four or five years um I’ll put a link to it on the website the copyright date is 2005. this is four
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years old he’s never been on Prime Time talk shows now he lectures all over the country um he’s fascinating lecture and uh he really I mean all over the country so keep your eye out or Google T Colin Campbell and the name of your city I’m sure you’ll find something locally but um these aren’t the things that get picked up on Primetime TV it’s just not the things that Oprah or any you know Jon Stewart shows not trust that I don’t know if that’s well you know we can talk conspiracy theories
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all we want but the fact is that the the you know the books are out there the scientific research is out there Dr John Kellogg wrote extensively about this when he was running to Battle Creek sanitarium but because that was the 1930s and 1940s um we discount that we ignore it but there’s truth in those words and things have changed since the 1930s and 40s in the way the Americans eat you know we’ve got the canned food processed and more meat more Meats available they increased their abilities to grow more grain to
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feed the cattle and the chicken and all that instead of feeding the people with the grain they’re feeding the animals with the grain I want you to buy the animal you know so a hundred years ago right now um less than five percent of America’s population lived in the cities and when you live in the city you have an issue of delivering and distributing food before it goes back so 95 of America lived in the country and they were the producers and they had that access to country food so to speak
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now less than five percent of our population in America lives in a country 95 lives in the city and what’s the easiest way to distribute food for people in the city process it so that it’ll last forever yeah give it a big long shelf life and downside of that is um there’s no nutritional value you feel full but you’re you’re literally starving right now for the full you’re starving to death or you’re actually not starving dust it’s they say you’re Diagon malnutrition was a full belly
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that’s what happened in America yeah yeah and it’s it’s sad and and we could I guess another episode we’ll talk about raw parenting because not only are we responsible for our own bodies but when we have children or family members that we have influence over uh our thoughts and actions and attitudes toward food influence their health because you’ve been the branch so grows the tree right and uh so all this is I’m just my eyes are being opened up throughout all this time this raw vegan food living Foods
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lifestyle education but it’s fun and you hit the nail on the head you’re feeling better oh yes and I appreciate doing the research you know I really enjoy it and I would recommend anyone who has not looked at any of Jim’s websites or done any of your own research on the raw living Foods lifestyle even if just the vegan lifestyle I think you would your eyes will be opened to a whole new way to approach your life and to have a healthier and more satisfying existence and uh we’re gonna cook aren’t we or not
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cook we’re going to food prep right we’re gonna uncook out in the kitchen we’re going to do some uncooking next so stay around and uh we’ll be right back stay tuned for more grassy Roots after these words from our sponsors want to learn more about a raw living Foods lifestyle there’s a wide collection of videos on the subject at gdietvideos.com you can find a video on any subject that suits your interest and your budget including rare footage of Dr Ann’s raw foods lifestyle
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programs this knowledge could change your life check out cheatietvideos.com [Music] one of the best things terrorists could do is just build more fast food restaurants maybe add another pharmaceutical company have a couple more infomercials and encourage people to eat do what they eat now and everybody’s going to be dead in 100 years they can just walk right in don’t have to do a thing [Music] I wonder if what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive
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[Music] cancer rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up we’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted Foods one of the major problems is what we do to the soil and the air and the water and everything we take in our food we for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about can we actually improve what has already
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been created and the answer is maybe but not the way we’ve been doing it if you want to know what’s wrong look down at the table it’s staring back at you think of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on but if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything we’ve missed the whole point we have been taught our whole lives to be consumers so modern medicine which is pharmaceutical medicine good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make
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a lot of dollars so the drug industry has every right to make money no question about that at all the ethics I think need to be very closely watched what the pharmaceutical companies are doing may not necessarily be in the interest of our population you can be as sincere and you can be sincerely wrong approximately a hundred and six thousand Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed there’s a lot more turning to Alternatives because
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what’s being done beforehand doesn’t work there is no magic bullet but there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease it’s cheap it’s simple it’s safe it’s effective the solutions are here they’ve always been here every single person in the world every culture every language every person in the world knows it you are what you eat food does matter [Music] it’s a choice you don’t have to be sick for a full-length DVD copy of Food Matters go to grassyroots.com food
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you’re not going to cook anymore how will I live I didn’t say that I wasn’t going to cook for you anymore I said that I wasn’t going to cook the vegetables anymore and I said we’re going to cut back on the red meat for a while where in the world did you get this idea I’ve been reading some of the articles that are posted on rawdoctors.com and they make a lot of sense you’ve got aches and pains I got high blood pressure and it’s time that we did something about our health so this is
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what I’m gonna do come on do it just for a little while sweetie do you learn what Susan has learned and more visit rawdoctors.com and now back to Grassy roots on Channel 6 TV with Beth Overgaauw and Jim Carey so here we are in the kitchen again and you’re going to make something I’ve never made as a meat eater much less a vegetarian or any other way I’m sure you’ve had sauerkraut before no I don’t by choice it’s not something I’ve learned to eat you were in different
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shoes today today I am yeah you’re much shorter usually we’re like this um veggie crop actually a form of sauerkraut it’s a popular German dish it’s a lightly fermented food which is really good for a number of factors in the body the digestinal tract the Rh factor so really good stuff and it’s really simple okay um that’s why I say being eating raw and eating organic does not have to be expensive because if we do these things ourselves they’re quick they’re easy and
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what I’m going to do I’ve got a whole head of cabbage here and once again I couldn’t find organic so I took what I could find and obviously if I had a bigger better sharper knife it’s going to be easier weeks at presents and donations you need to bring something from the farm up to your next trip but all I’m doing is chopping this up into chunks now it is it is fun to do it in the food processor sometimes especially if you got one of those nice big food processors right but the point
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here is that you don’t want to uh we’re gonna chop this some more but you don’t want to chop it up too small okay um you really don’t need to now what I’ve got here is a German crock pot okay okay this is a gar top brand uh seven and a half liters it was what I could find when I bought it on eBay oh okay even used on eBay they’re 150 now you can do this with a kitchen pot okay okay the trick of the kitchen pot is you want to find a plate that fits right inside and almost fills
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it okay and then and then the other things we’ll do I’ll talk about the kitchen pot some more okay but this is really the way to do it it’s got the ceramic lid and we’re going to make a vapor barrier here by filling this rim with water oh I’m just gonna set this aside okay and you need to keep pressure on your trout that’s why the plate when I say you got to put a plate inside of the pot okay and then you’re gonna put a big old rock on top of it well this has these two ceramic things obviously
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you’re running through the dishwasher getting good clean one tip about these pots don’t storm with the lid on they will mildew on you oh we don’t want that yeah and then you got the sticky pot now they have a rough bottom you notice I brought a plastic mat with this so I didn’t tear your counter up okay nice rough ceramic bottom will scratch the countertop so you just take your pot here and all we need to do is chunk this a little smaller and by the way you can add anything you want into your Kraut to make it the way
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you want it in other words a common thing is to use red cabbage instead of instead of the greens and you get a nice red a red veggie Kraut I think chunks like this are fine carrots peppers carrots Peppers um actually I’ve got bunch of the things here I’m going to throw a little sesame seed in as I get higher up on there and um you do it in layers then or does it matter yeah it layers is the way they do right okay and another thing I like to put in it a lot of this is going to mash up when we go at it with our club
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you’ll see in a minute you’ll see it in a minute so this like this this is fine just open it up some don’t have to make it real small and really when I’m doing this on the farm yeah it’s like five minutes to chop up the uh yeah yeah two can play yeah it’s five minutes to chop this up people talk about oh raw food takes so much time raw vegan takes I mean Raw uh what’s that word we want um Gourmet Gourmet Gourmet takes a lot of time but the basic raw diet is is quicker than do
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it’s just as quick as do a microwave food I swear um that time you get it out I’m gonna throw a little Sesame in as I’m going okay okay and uh you just keep opening these up then you have to break them up that much because it’s all about juicing this there’s something whole and earthy about this yeah isn’t that there’s something personal about making your own food and you know we talk about the biophotonic energy of the food right um there’s there’s a certain energy we
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impart to our Foods when we make it ourselves you know it’s like Grandma’s homemade pies I think one of the things that make them so good is the love she put into it and so even when somebody says to me oh brother Jim try my fried chicken and I don’t say things like oh I don’t eat that stuff no they’re Pro Series you know Sister bestie I really appreciate that you made that for me yeah and I really appreciate all the love you work you put and you put into it but you know my doctor wouldn’t like that if I ate
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that don’t put a little more yep good idea anything else besides with some sunflower seed in another thing to put in for flavor and color is beets I think I think you said when I called it you had beets in the refrigerator well I thought well we do yeah we we do we get that beat up we can cut it up in it yeah um they don’t last as long as I thought they did in the refrigerator so we might leave this out this time uh let’s not put that beat in my crop no get out of here go sterilize your hands
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that’s gross [Laughter] um well you know about that’s that’s part of what we were saying uh the other week on the show about um you know we tend to throw away 25 to 50 percent of our produce and when I say that being raw vegan is not a is not expensive it’s because I’m going to the market a couple times a week but how long does it take to fly down the produce aisle to go through the self-checkout not very long no I’m in and out in less time than mom used to take shopping weekly for the family
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because it’s produce aisle and maybe the swing aside swing around to the spice aisle or something like that but once you know the layout of your Market you’re in and out you’re in the quickie checkout if not 20 items or less then the self-serve but not throwing stuff away uh we had that the other day where uh I went into Studio fridge and you said we’re out of food and I said no it’s just about making recipes for what we’ve got because the only thing we really needed was some romaine lettuce yeah and
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other than that we had plenty of food that going out and shopping again is why we end up throwing stuff away we’re going to cover this more in other rep uh episodes now you need to beat this into submission okay to get the juices flowing okay okay and I like a baseball bat you just scrub your baseball bat up but if you don’t tell the cooking show I’m gonna tear the rolling pin apart because you know I really believe in reuse and recycle and finding other uses we’ll do a time lapse on this because I
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am going to beat on this for about five minutes and it’s probably making the camera Shake over there hey could we all do that okay but all I’m doing here is mashing this down and what I’m trying to do is get the juices flowing because the obvious question here that you haven’t asked yet is how much vinegar are you going to put in there was I was wondering what the juice was going to be the juice is going to come from the Cabbage itself no vinegar now vinegar is really not part of the Dr
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Anne’s program at all it’s got digestive issues um it’s got body chemistry issues so uh and I made that mistake myself in my early business traps yeah good I think this is a good way to get rid of displaced aggression yeah and I made that mistake on my early veggie crops was uh throwing some vinegar in there I think I needed that to get it started right there’s a reason it’s not in the recipes it’s not in the recipe let’s throw some Sesame down in there now you got it knocked down okay and
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go ahead find a way okay oh I should not have I should have it it’s got like and I I missed this in my layers this is my favorite thing is dose flakes it’s a dried form of seaweed and this gives a little salty flavor hang on just a minute okay what I’m gonna do is reach down in here and stir it up a bit and Stir It Down Under yeah I like the seaweed flavor I like sushi so I like let’s do some more adults too that’s my favorite flavoring so lots of dolls get your hands right down in this
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oh the stickle pound it down in you have to worry about arranging it it’s already smelling interesting now can you put onions you know you can put anything in this you want onions aren’t highly recommended all right minimum of onions for raw fooders again that’s not part of Dr Anne’s program but I don’t think it’s onion I don’t think it’s Pizza without onions like we did the other week um garlic garlic is good for you though so instead of onion as a pure raw living
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food or just garlic instead of onion what what are you looking for you’re you’re looking for it to to start being juicy and well mashed and it’s actually getting a little juicy now but my criteria is is I I pound on until my arms get tired you go for it and then that takes and then that takes off a part of my having to go outside and work work on the farm you know my my two hours a day Outdoors doing something well this counts uh oh yeah if you change left hand right hand left hand right hand oh yeah yeah wax on wax
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off bump on thump off and you see where you see it’s a little close the edge here yeah you see where baseball bat just works okay just scrub it up good yeah because you could hurt your knuckle if you’re not careful yeah yeah any baseball bag and you’re getting both hands on it you’re really messing oh is it very likely you’d break this the crock pot I’ve had this for five years and I’ve used a baseball bat on it repeatedly laughs I have in particular one I’ve seen these
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people dropped the lid and the lids break yeah it is heavy yeah it’s about 20 pounds and uh now do you typically want to fill it through the top and then start mashing it or does it mean no as a matter of fact if I was really making a full recipe and primarily I mentioned this is seven and a half liters and you don’t need one this big ah that was just what I was able to find um yeah I couldn’t even I mean just find him on the Internet is the challenge um you see all those spices are mixed in
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real good I just want to taste it yeah number four the foreign sweetness to it you know I use it sparingly in salads but most of my cabbage ends up in the crock pot see that’s really messed up well there I’m even hitting the bottom of the pot from time to time so all we want to do from here is get it nice and level and uh let’s get this right in the camera if you don’t miss it I take my waiting Stones here okay and they fit they fit right in side by side so they cover the bottom
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and I’m not pounding on them you’re pushing I just want to seed them down there firmly and I mean this is so complex it’s so high-tech we’re almost done I clean out the edge because this is going to sit for at least three days maybe a week it depends on the temperature in the room put the lid on and take I use filtered water for everything and what this does is make a vapor seal okay so the fermentation expands right right so what you’ll hear from time to time is you’ll hear blipp
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blur and this sits on the kitchen it sits on the kitchen counter and you can check it from time to time it off oh the water doesn’t go down in there water doesn’t go down in and you can go in but three to five days when it really starts bubbling a lot now you watch I sit this down gently it’ll let the air out and uh never more than a week well but uh when it’s really bubbling good it’s ready and then let’s bring it and bring it out ladle it up veggie crowd like this will
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keep for a month in the fridge so it’s a good stamina when you we don’t have much time to prepare fish oh you know what I did in the last batch I like because they’re in season cranberries ah I did cranberry veggie crap this imagination it’s like there’s no there’s no chemical reaction going on here therefore you can add anything you like the taste of and when you mess up a recipe you just thin it out all right I think I told you about my clove soup and that’s it Beth you have veggie trout
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and we’ll Harvest that next week and delayed gratification I have to wait a few things in muffins oh yeah thank you thank you [Music] our next sharing is how to make veg craft we do not make any more sauerkraut because it takes pounding and it takes seven days this particular method for several reasons it takes only three days plus we use the underground vegetables such as beets cauliflower and cabbage I mean uh carrots are very very good because they do all those like beets and carrots make color
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so when we do we grind it you put it in the grinder and we proceed with grinding it [Music] come with it you know stop it cauliflower [Music] I’m not quite too much beats you know I think one or two beats blending carrots yes a lot of carrots not so much of the beets because just stay cool now if you decided to put celery it is better to cut up your celery rather than put it through the champions so now we will do we’ll mix it all together we do not use any seasoning we don’t need to
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and all we’ll do is put it into the Croc so that will take three days sometimes two and other times maybe four because it depends on the weather and of course we want to put pay cabbage leaves on top and then now we’ll take a jar of water a lot of water any any jar will do this this jar is fine filled with water and put it on top the Cabbage leaves because the water weigh it down that’s the reason we use the the jars because it weighs down the particular vegetables and that means that will
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ferment that it just fermenting for them and juice comes up the top and generally what we do we just take the um the leaves and remove it through the compost and that’s all there is and you’re ready to use it two three or four days then you can put it into a jar and ready for use and this is the very veg craft so you have a veg craft it’s ready for use so that’s all I was doing she’s so simple and we’d never go without it because that contributes several different things to it
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because it’s fermented with the enzymes is because it’s easy to digest and we do not have to use the vegetables like the ordinary would have to use we use in this fashion and that is um I have put a lot of different vegetables and I like cut up Celery I even cut up some some of the Red Pepper or even zucchini [Music] thank you looking for a comprehensive guide on the subject of the raw foods lifestyle Susan Shang has written an encyclopedia on the subject the live food Factor this comprehensive Guide to the ultimate diet
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next on grassy Roots organic gardening tips from Frank Colvin of country greenhouse to Garden hi I’m here in the country it’s beautiful I’m with Frank Colvin who is an area organic farmer hi Frank this is the time of year when people are starting to think about putting in a garden maybe beginners Well I think that’s who we’re going to address right the people that really don’t know what they’re doing but with the recession the way it is people are maybe thinking about putting in their own garden
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growing their own food that’s great and Frank you’ve been at this for a while yeah I’ve been at a uh most of my life I mean my dad and all raised gardens and stuff and uh since I retired I just picked it up that’s basically all I do and it’s turned into a home-based business yeah just uh small what’s the name of your business uh country greenhouse to garden and you provide from seeds to the finished product that’s right the greenhouse comes in early in the year and we get the plants
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all going and move we move several plants not a lot but then once the greenhouse kind of dies away we go to the gardening aspect of it then and start doing some gardening and selling vegetables and so on so forth and we’re standing right now in and what will be your your garden I know she haven’t tilled yet no it’s still oh it’s mid-march that’s right when do people need to start breaking the ground well now is a good time uh providing you can get the ground dry enough uh this time of year you you never know you
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know it one day it’s dry next day it’s wet but you can all you can always go out in the garden and and check pretty much to see whether it’s dry enough or some some people like to break it when it’s a little damp they call it slick right they’ll turn it over and the ground will be slick they go ahead and break it hoping for a freeze oh and the freezer it’s like freeze dry the freezer freezed right and break it down uh like today it’s wet if you wish to break today then you’d almost have to
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have a freeze if you happen to not get a freeze then you’ll just get a big bunch of them uh Big Balls of dirt in your garden it’s kind of like uh clumpy clumpy yeah uh what do you look for well like right now this is this is uh pretty much as you can see it’s pretty wet yeah you know if you take a whole it’s not too bad though not too bad no you it’ll it’ll it’ll crumble this would probably break but now if you squeeze it and it pretty much makes a hard ball and when
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you squeeze it it don’t work once it’s what we used to throw at each other right it tends to stay together and not come apart then that’s what they call it being kind of slick and they don’t want they want some of them are break and wait for a freeze hope for a freeze of course if you don’t get the freeze then there’s what you’ll get in your garden big clumps you’ll have big clumps now this is not bad though I don’t think this would really Clump up yeah but it’s
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how deep do you go uh we usually break about 12 to 14 inches so how many times with tiller does it take to go if you’re doing it with a tiller of course now with the tiller you can’t you can’t go 12 to 14 inches you can just go the depth of your tailor in this situation I would break it with with a turning plow I’ve got turning plows for my tractor and I’d break it about 12 to 14 inches but now the ones that don’t have turning blouse you could go over this this is too wet for a tiller oh just a
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tiller it would wad up in your tiller and make a mess if you wait a little later till it starts drying out uh probably one time over it and then let it sit for a day and then go back over it again it’d be ready oh okay it’d be ready to plant you want Once you turn it up you want that to dry a little bit you could also go over it again for the third time and it would uh it’d make it it would be a little finer and if you’re planting seed which is good if you’re planting seed if you’re planting
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vegetable plants it don’t have to be quite as fine okay now as an organic Gardener you do not use uh herbicides no very prevent weeds from taking well out here we’ve uh I work it up real good and try to turn everything under all the weeds and everything because you’re going to get a lot of weed seed quick as the plants get set good and everything then I start I start tillering in between and between the rows I start telling and of course we’ve got some gooseneck holes here also that
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we use and basically that’s how we keep the weeds down how wide should your rose be so you’re just as wise your tiller is or a little bit no you need a little wider than you tiller now you need to go about probably six to about at least six inches or eight inches wide in your tiller because most of your stuff once it gets up any size it’s going to lap in on you okay then you can’t get through it especially beans and tomatoes and that type thing I plant my tomatoes three feet apart oh okay I plant them
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three feet apart in every direction you can tell her about you can tell her up and down across and that way you don’t have to worry about the host about so because it is easier to till the rose whatever couple of weeks depending on the weather and what if you get a lot of rain of course you get a lot of grass and a lot of weed seed if you get uh if it stays dry you don’t get as much but the tiller is a whole lot easier than the gooseneck hole oh yeah you know what about mulching mulching works good we use all our grass
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clippings all our yard clippings and our Tomatoes especially once once the mowing season starts then we start Holland we’ve got a what we call a power rake pulls behind our Mower and we pick up all our clippings off the yard and we put them in our in our Tomatoes we around the tomatoes around the tomatoes and then the rows completely try to completely compost all the tomatoes that we’ve got these paper shredded paper well yeah it would work I’d say it would work good I’ve never tried it a lot of
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people that are sort of semi-city folk might have a lot of shredded paper if you could if you could get it to hold in the garden would be the big thing blows away I mean you could always pick up a scoop of dirt pitch on it you know something like that but uh recycle you know yeah yeah all in all I’d say it would be it would probably be good now we’ve talked about herbicide what about fertilizer fertilizer organic Gardener what do you use for fertilizer I use manure mostly cow manure uh we’ve got uh
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we keep a few cows around the farm here and uh neighbor up here’s got horses can you buy manure if you need me sure you can buy a manure uh matter of fact Walmart salesman Walmart sells bags it’s organic manure uh they sell it by the bag by like a 25 pound bag I don’t it would probably turn out pretty expensive if you had to buy a lot of it which uh mine comes free yeah it ain’t really free you got to feed the cows but uh no it’s uh I use a lot of manure uh which is as far as I’m concerned some
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of the best fertilizer you can use uh you got to be careful with it especially around young plants and stuff that you don’t burn them up but once the plants if you’ll put it in early and turn it under and Tiller it in good you don’t have to worry about it so much but now if you try to use it throughout the season top dressing then you’re going to run into problems with with heat and the older the manure the better the older the older the manure the better the better it it tends to
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break down and get a lot of the acid out of it that’s what burns most stuff is the acid in the manure manure has got a lot of nutrients in it that really helps the plants and stuff and if you uh if you try top dressing with freshman or it’s almost out of the question you know because it’s got so much it’s too much it’s too hot in the same can be true of the compost it might be too high it can be too hot that’s correct well I guess that would be a good beginning for our viewers if they want to start a garden
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they they need to look at the soil to see if it’s ready to be tilled they need to know to till in the manure early enough so that if they’re going organic herbicides are no-nos right for an organic garden and that’s the start that’s correct and we’ll we’ll talk about seeds next week okay all right very good thank you so much Frank thank you thank you thank you for watching channel 6 television and grassy Roots watch future episodes of grassy roots for more organic gardening
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tips with Frank Colvin [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] want to learn more about a raw living Foods lifestyle there’s a wide collection of videos on the subject at chidietvideos.com you can find a video on any subject that suits your interest and your budget including rare footage of Dr Ann’s raw living food lifestyle programs this knowledge could change your life check out gdietvideos.com [Music] one of the best things terrorists could do was just build more fast food
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restaurants maybe add another pharmaceutical company have a couple more infomercials and encourage people to eat the way they eat now and everybody’s going to be dead in 100 years they can just walk right in don’t have to do a thing [Music] murder of what you eat keeps you alive and three quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive [Music] cancer rates going up heart disease going up stroke going up we’re poisoning ourselves with highly processed nutrient depleted Foods one of the major problems
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is what we do to the soil and the air and the water and everything we take in our food we for whatever reason decided we’re going to spray everything with every kind of pesticide herbicide larvicide fungicide we decided we’re going to genetically modify things we don’t know anything about can we actually improve what has already been created and the answer is maybe but not the way we’ve been doing it if you want to know what’s wrong look down at the table it’s staring back at you think
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of it as chronic malnutrition because that’s what’s going on but if we think we’re going to go to the doctor and get a pill for everything we’ve missed the whole point we have been taught our whole lives to be consumers so modern medicine which is pharmaceutical medicine good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars so the drug industry has every right to make money no question about a rule the ethics I think need to be very closely watched what the pharmaceutical companies are doing may
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not necessarily be in the interest of our population you can be as sincere and you can be sincerely wrong approximately a hundred and six thousand Americans die from pharmaceutical drugs each year and these are people who took the medication as directed there’s a lot more turning to Alternatives because what’s being done beforehand doesn’t work there is no magic bullet but there is a lifestyle change that reverses serious chronic disease it’s cheap it’s simple it’s safe it’s
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effective the solutions are here they’ve always been here every single person in the world every culture every language every person in the world knows you are what you eat food does matter [Music] it’s a choice you don’t have to be sick for a full-length DVD copy of Food Matters go to grassyroots.com food when truth rings curiosity sins finding yourself we’re all curious Dr Ann’s we’re all Foods lifestyle home study program has the answers check out chidiet.com and satisfy your
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